Education Went Missing In the U.S., and Here’s What Happened

If there is a single idea that explains the debacle we’re experiencing in the United States it’s the one represented here.

The point raised by Russian novelist, philosopher, and political dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn lies at the core of the racial strife and radical divisiveness that the U.S. is experiencing.  All this hatred and ignorance was lying in wait, sitting more or less dormant, until a demagogue arrived on the scene, awakened it, and heated it to a boil.