When teachers prize inquiry over ideology, they train not just students, but citizens. By demanding civility, balance, and intellectual honesty from our educators, perhaps our politics will follow. The reverse has failed us too often to ignore the lesson any longer

For our system of government to function — and for a civil society overall — we need people in our lives who think and believe differently than we do. We must allow our views to be challenged and to learn how to challenge others without assuming ill motive.

While Mr. Trump and other armchair aviation experts should accept the reality they were wrong to peg DEI as the cause of the DC and Toronto crashes, the failures of DEI are enough to end it anyway.

Mr. Trump, J.D. Vance, and all our elected representatives are imperfect messengers but each represent the choices of the American people and as such are a testament to the strength of our democratic, constitutional republic.

Racism, sexism, and many other sorts of discrimination still exist. It’s good for all of us to work together to root them out and our legal system has many avenues to do just that. The divisiveness, exclusion, and incompetence that results from the distraction of DEI programming isn’t the way to do so.