When does the US have a “civics” crisis?  Columnist Max Boot suggests that perhaps when more Americans can identify Michael Jackson as the composer of ‘Beat It’ and ‘Billie Jean’ than can identify the Bill of Rights as a body of amendments to the U.S. Constitution!  In The Washington Post, Boot writes that “historians need to speak to a larger public … and students need to grasp the importance of studying history, not only for their own future but for the country’s, too.”