All Posts Tagged With: "multiculturalism"

Cultural Competence and Your Child

A buzz term is appearing with increased frequency in the literature and programs surrounding education at both the public-school and university levels: cultural competence. Parents would do well to ask, “What is it, and how could it affect my children?” The term “cultural competence” first arose in connection with health care, where a standard definition is: [...]

1Sep2007 | Wendy McElroy | 2 comments | Continued

Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus

American colleges and universities are hothouses of hypocrisy, and the principal exhibit is that while their spokesmen talk endlessly about their commitment to openness, tolerance, critical thinking, diversity, and so on, many of them have adopted policies designed to stifle the expression of unpopular sentiments and empower certain groups to punish others for having the [...]

1Apr2006 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | Continued

After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State

Americans have given up freedom and self-government for a mess of pottage. Modern “liberalism,” argues political science professor Paul Gottfried in his insightful new book, rests on a “patricide” of the older liberalism. Whereas liberalism and democracy were once opposed concepts, they are now conflated, to the great detriment of the former. Meanwhile, “democracy,” which [...]

1Oct2000 | Joseph R. Stromberg | 0 comments | Continued

Plagues of the Mind: The New Epidemic of False Knowledge

Every generation wants to believe that it will know more than the previous one, and this knowledge will lead necessarily to material and spiritual improvement and the elimination of the moral and physical evils from which humanity has suffered for ages. Although faith in progress has enabled people to achieve great things, it has also [...]

1Sep2000 | Charles Stampul | 0 comments | Continued

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 | Continued

All the Essential Half-Truths about Higher Education

George Roche is the president of Hillsdale College and author of The Fall of the Ivory Tower. George Dennis O’Brien, retired president of Bucknell University and the University of Rochester and author of What to Expect from College, has addressed himself to a vitally important subject—the many myths and misconceptions surrounding American higher education. Although [...]

1May1999 | George Roche | 0 comments | Continued

Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault on Truth in American Law by Daniel A. Farber and Suzanna Sherry

Oxford University Press • 1997 • 195 pages • $25.00 Lauren Bain is an attorney and writer living on Vashon Island in Puget Sound. She is the author of Glamorgan’s Tales: A Cat’s Garden of Verse (Companion Star, 1998). In Beyond All Reason, Daniel Farber and Suzanna Sherry identify a serious threat to our legal [...]

1Jan1999 | Lauren S. Bain | 0 comments | Continued

Assimilation, American Style by Peter D. Salins

Basic Books • 1996 • 272 pages • $26.00 Rita Simon teaches in the department of justice, law and society, School of Public Affairs at American University, Washington, D.C. Author Peter Salins says up front that he had two major reasons for writing Assimilation, American Style. First, to tell about the wonderful contributions immigrants have [...]

1Mar1998 | Rita J. Simon | 2 comments | Continued

The Menace of Multiculturalism by Alvin J. Schmidt

Praeger Publishers • 1997 • 199 pages + index • $39.95 Steven Yates, who teaches management ethics at Southern Wesleyan University, is an adjunct research fellow with the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty and the author of Civil Wrongs: What Went Wrong With Affirmative Action (San Francisco: ICS Press, 1994). In [...]

1Jan1998 | Steven Yates | 1 comment | Continued

The Diversity Machine: The Drive to Change the White Male Workplace by Frederick R. Lynch

The Free Press • xv + 416 pages • $27.50 Brad Stetson is director of The David Institute, a social research group in Tustin, California. He is co-author of Challenging the Civil Rights Establishment (Praeger Publishers, 1993), and author of Human Dignity and Contemporary Liberalism (forthcoming, Praeger). His E-mail address is blsdi@aol.com. A shorter version [...]

1Sep1997 | Brad Stetson | 0 comments | Continued

What Is Multiculturalism?

Dr. Mack is a professor of philosophy at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Occasionally one thinks that, perhaps because it has become so tedious, multiculturalism has begun to pass from the scene. Unfortunately, such thoughts seem entirely too optimistic in light of the great extent to which multiculturalist slogans have become culturally and institutionally [...]

1Oct1996 | Eric Mack | 2 comments | Continued

Fallacies of Uncritical Multiculturalism

Dr. Machan teaches Philosophy at Auburn University, Alabama. Some of the trends in our country are new only if you have very little knowledge of human history. Such is the case with the current multiculturalism craze on our college and university campuses. The idea is that no culture is better than any other, so it [...]

1Mar1996 | Tibor R. Machan | 2 comments | Continued

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