Cultural Commentator and Author

Kay Hymowitz

1 article 2002

Kay Hymowitz is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor at City Journal, known for her writing on childhood, family structure, education, and American culture. She contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2002, writing on social studies education. She is the author of several books, including "Manning Up" and "Liberation's Children."

Anti-Social Studies

May 6, 2002 · Features, Magazine

SEPTEMBER 11 was a transforming moment in the civic imagination of many Americans. To them, the attacks drove home the reality that pluralism, religious tolerance, equality, freedom, and prosperity are not the default condition of mankind but a fragile gift of history in need of our reverence and…