All Posts Tagged With: "literature"
Losing Our Language: How Multicultural Classroom Instruction Is Undermining Our Children’s Ability to Read, Write, and Reason by Sandra Stotsky
Free Press • 1999 • 307 pages • $26.00 Sandra Stotsky, a researcher at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has for over 20 years studied the cognitive and political (she prefers “civic”) consequences of contemporary educational fads, as well as their historical predecessors. Losing Our Language argues that during the past 30 years the [...]
1Apr2000 | Nicholas Stix | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Fountainhead: An American Novel by Douglas J. Den Uyl
Twayne Publishers • 1999 • 123 pages • $32.00 “But of course, if individualism really is central to Americanism, then The Fountainhead is the quintessential American novel.” This is the concluding sentence of Douglas Den Uyl’s wonderful discussion of Ayn Rand’s great novel, which has been at the center of the resurgence of interest in [...]
1Mar2000 | Tibor R. Machan | 90 comments | ContinuedThe Literature of Freedom
Mr. Hazlitt, author of “Economics in One Lesson” and other libertarian works is a contributing editor of “Newsweek.” The free man’s library is a descriptive and critical bibliography of works on the philosophy of individualism—“individualism” in a broad sense. The bibliography includes works which explain the workings and advantages of free trade, free enterprise, and [...]
1Jun1956 | Henry Hazlitt | 0 comments | Continued-
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