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For Luck or Merit: On Jessi Streib’s “The Accidental Equalizer”
Johann Neem reviews Jessi Streib’s new book, “The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College.”
Johann N. Neem
Johann N. Neem is author of What’s the Point of College? Seeking Purpose in an Age of Reform (2019) and Democracy’s Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America (2017), which was reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is a professor of history at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington.
Articles
Revenge of the Poorly Educated: On Will Bunch’s “After the Ivory Tower Falls”
Johann Neem reviews Will Bunch’s “After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics―and How to Fix It.”
The Struggle to Make the United States Secular
Johann Neem on David Sehat’s explanation of why American law turned secular in the mid-1900s.
On Patriotism and Potlucks
Patriotism is a virtue — if you do it right.
Achieving the College Dream
Johann N. Neem reviews "Won’t Lose This Dream," a look at Georgia State University's program to graduate more students by Andrew Gumbel.
A Nation of Nations Must Still Be a Nation: On Nationalism, Globalization, and Writing History
Jill Lepore’s book argues for a shared national history, but fails to explain what that history looks like.
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