by Christina Hoff Sommers

About the author: Christina Hoff Sommers is a professor of philosophy at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and the W.H. Brady Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. She is the editor of Right and Wrong: Basic Readings in Ethics, the coeditor of Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life: Introductory Readings in Ethics, and the author of Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women.

A lot is heard today about how Johnny can’t read, can’t write, and the trouble he has finding France on a map. It also is true that Johnny is having difficulty distinguishing right from wrong. Along with illiteracy and innumeracy, deep moral confusion must be added to the list of educational problems. Increasingly, today’s young people know...