John O. McGinnis reports in the City Journal on the rise of civic-education colleges at universities across the U.S. These schools, McGinnis describes, are attempting to correct for the painful failings of today’s universities by busting open the left-wing echo chamber and creating a space for free and genuine academic discussion.
The Paper-Pushers Who (Barely) Control America’s Skies
Fans of the 1999 movie Pushing Tin will recall frenetic scenes of air traffic controllers working to keep airliners from colliding in crowded skies. The current reality, writes John Tierney in City Journal, is far worse. Control tasks at U.S. airports today are still exchanged using paper “flight strips”. In contrast to this “international disgrace”, writes Tierney, European and even Canadian control towers have gone nearly all-digital.