By pushing the “Intellectual Dark Web” into the ring of political discourse last week, Bari Weiss formally introduced the country to a group of people who could save education. I realize that, on its surface, this statement seems hyperbolic, so allow me to explain why it isn’t.

It’s 2018, and our nation is more politically polarized than ever. Mercifully, there are educators out there like Kate Hardiman, a Chicago-area English and religion teacher, who takes time to write about potential solutions to a problem that many believe begins and ends in the schools our young people attend. In her most recent article, Hardiman implies that the lack of “structured, evidenced based debate” in classrooms traps students in a “nebulous, cushy world of opinions.”