Author: Peter Wood & Jared Gould

Peter Wood is president of the National Association of Scholars and author of “1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project.”

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Jared Gould is the Managing Editor of Minding the Campus. Follow him on X @J_Gould_

Trump and the Modest Rise of Civic Knowledge

Every September, the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center releases its annual survey on Americans’ knowledge of the Constitution. The survey has, for nearly two decades, charted the ebb and flow of civic awareness in the United States. The latest results, released recently, suggest that something unusual is happening: Americans are remembering—or perhaps relearning—how […]

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