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Heath Brown, an associate professor of public policy, at CUNY’s John Jay College, is the author of Homeschooling the Right: How Conservative Education Activism Erodes the State (Columbia University Press).
In 2021, as in 1974, the right is using schooling, especially homeschooling, as a cudgel in a larger political war over race, religion, and sex.
Pods, like homeschooling, may align around self-protection and individual liberty—the same American values that have made dealing with the pandemic such a national challenge.
