About the Author: Josh Herring
Josh Herring is an Assistant Administrator for Thales Academy, in North Carolina, and a doctoral student at Faulkner University, and the host of The Optimistic Curmudgeon podcast. He tweets at @optimisticC3. This article originally appeared in Public Discourse, the online journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton, NJ and is republished with permission from Public Discourse. See www.thepublicdiscourse.com.