All Posts Tagged With: "academics"
A Triple Whammy for Austrian Economics
They say that when economic times are good businesses can get away with sloppy practices. In the intellectual world, however, it seems that sloppy thinking prevails in desperate times and important distinctions get thrown out the window. A good example of this appeared recently in a March 4 New York Times article titled “Ivory Tower [...]
19Aug2009 | Sandy Ikeda | 9 comments | ContinuedThey Learned from the Workers
I have a confession to make: there has always been something attractive to me about the Maoist idea of sending the intellectuals out into the countryside and into the factories to “learn from the peasants and proletarians.” When I listen to the endless stream of leftist pronouncements that comes from academia these days I really [...]
1Oct2002 | Stephen Browne | 0 comments | ContinuedAn Open Letter to My Parents
Dear Mom and Dad: I suppose I’m typical: not until my own child came along did I reflect seriously on the sacrifices you made and on the challenges you confronted in raising my siblings and me. There’s so much to thank you for. But here I focus on what is surely your most precious gift [...]
1Jul2002 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 3 comments | ContinuedParanoia About Paranoia in American Politics
Since the 1960s modern “liberals” have often sought to stigmatize those who distrust government as paranoid. This “diagnosis” was first popularized by Columbia University professor Richard Hofstadter (1916–1970). His widely read book The Paranoid Style in American Politics, first published in 1965, presented a thesis that is routinely invoked to delegitimize any criticism of government [...]
1Aug1999 | James Bovard | 0 comments | ContinuedWho Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom
Fred Miller teaches the classical Greek language and is professor of philosophy and executive director of the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University. Over a decade ago, Allan Bloom’s explosive book, The Closing of the American Mind, opened the floodgates of criticism of American higher education for perverting its ostensible mission [...]
1Jun1999 | Fred D. Miller Jr. | 1 comment | Continued-
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