IS OUR CHILDREN LEARNING? Via Billmon by way of The Arabist, I see that apparently 30 percent of Americans, according to a new survey, can’t recall what year 9-11 happened. And five percent don’t remember the day and month of 9-11. As Billmon asks, “I wonder how many of them know who’s buried in Grant’s tomb?”

–Garance Franke-Ruta

Garance Franke-Ruta is a former senior editor at the Prospect. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She was a 2006 recipient of a fellowship at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.