All Posts Tagged With: "political correctness"
Trembling in the Ivory Tower: Excesses in the Pursuit of Truth and Tenure
If you listen to spokesmen for the higher-education establishment, America’s colleges and universities are the envy of the world, propelling our economy forward with brilliantly educated young minds. Look only at the bright spots in American higher education and you might well conclude that such praise is merited. But to assume that something is true [...]
8Jul2010 | George C. Leef | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn
In the endless debates over political correctness, champions of PC like to argue that their foes exaggerate the harm it causes. If you study the issue closely, you’ll find that political correctness is not as bad as you think it is—it’s much worse. Diane Ravitch found out this unwholesome truth in 1998. A prominent education [...]
7Jul2010 | Martin Morse Wooster | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Reviews – 2008/5
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution by Kevin R. C. Gutzman Regnery • 2007 • 258 pages • $19.95 paperback Reviewed by J. H. Huebert Conservative commentators often tell us that if only we would get back to the Constitution as it was understood, say, 100 years ago, all would be well with our [...]
1May2008 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedCultural 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 | ContinuedI’d Push the Button—To Establish Freedom Right Now
In April 1946, a month after the late Leonard E. Read established the Foundation for Economic Education, he gave a talk in Detroit called “I’d Push the Button.” He said that if there were a button on the podium that would immediately abolish all controls and regulations on the U.S. economy, he would push it. [...]
1Jun2005 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedAcademic Socialism Versus the Free Market
Academia has long been thought of as the marketplace of ideas, the arena where truth may be pursued through dispassionate discourse and openness to competing views. Yet higher education in America has moved a great distance from this ideal and its practice. (Click title to read more…)
1May2005 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – 2002/3
While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today by Donald Kagan and Frederick W. Kagan St. Martin’s Press o 2000 o 483 pages o $32.50 Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign Policy and Defense Policy edited by Robert Kagan and William Kristol Encounter Books o 2000 o 401 pages [...]
1Mar2002 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedCan a Feminist Homeschool Her Child?
“Welcome to my home school—my private, little rebellion against the enemies of educational excellence and the forces of feminism who say a woman’s place is in the paying workplace.” —ISABEL LYMAN “A Mother’s Day of Home Schooling” In a peaceful mutiny against the quality and content of government education, a growing number of parents are [...]
1Feb2002 | Wendy McElroy | 4 comments | ContinuedThe Ten Things You Can’t Say in America by Larry Elder
St. Martin’s Press · 2000 · 367 pages · $23.95 cloth; $14.95 paperback Reviewed by William H. Peterson There is hope yet for America. Larry Elder is a host of a successful talk show on KABC Radio in Los Angeles and a nationally syndicated columnist who wins the imprimatur of a major book publisher to [...]
1Oct2001 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedFree Speech and the Politics of Identity by David A. J. Richards
Oxford University Press • 2000 • $65.00 • 296 pages It’s no surprise that free speech is under siege today—those in power always try to suppress criticism. What is surprising is that the attackers now come from the traditional defenders of free speech, mainstream academics. Most colleges have “politically correct” speech codes that threaten serious [...]
1May2001 | George W. Dent | 0 comments | ContinuedGender Madness on Columbia’s Campus
Since the beginning of the fall 2000 academic year, a precedent-setting “Sexual Misconduct Policy” has been in place at Columbia University, one of the nation’s most prominent universities. The policy is a new maneuver in the politically correct gender crusade that has swept academia in the last two decades. For example, it establishes Columbia as [...]
1Mar2001 | Wendy McElroy | 0 comments | ContinuedThe New Anti-Liberals
Americans concerned about the inroads that political correctness continues to make into their lives would do well to look northward to Canada. The intrusive regime of moral reformation according to the left is about ten years more advanced there than it is in the United States. The situation permits us to see our probable future. [...]
1Dec2000 | Thomas F. Bertonneau | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America’s Campuses
Many books have discussed political indoctrination on American campuses, but none is as thorough and damning as this one. Alan Kors, a history professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvey Silverglate, a criminal defense attorney and civil liberties litigator, present overwhelming evidence that the loss of liberty on campuses is far greater than most [...]
1Nov1999 | Daniel Shapiro | 2 comments | ContinuedWisconsin’s Choice
Jon Sanders is a research associate for the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and editor of the center’s journal on higher education, Clarion. The plaque is proudly posted at the front entrance to Bascom Hall on the campus of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. It memorializes the eloquent [...]
1Feb1999 | Jon Sanders | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Problem of Education Doesn’t End at the 12th Grade
The decline in students’ test scores and of literacy in America are often laid at the doorstep of K-12 public education. Children are clearly being shortchanged, but not by the K-12 system alone. Indirectly but decisively, children are being shortchanged by the system that teaches the teachers who teach the children—higher education.
1Jan1997 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
Dr. DiLorenzo is Professor of Economics in the Sellinger School of Business and Management at Loyola College in Maryland. At a June 1993 luncheon at the Heritage Foundation, I had the privilege of sitting next to Tom Sowell and discussing current events with him. I asked him what he made of the bizarre phenomenon of [...]
1Jan1996 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Fall of the Ivory Tower: Government Funding, Corruption, and the Bankrupting of Higher Education
This book picks up where Dinesh D’Souza leaves off. Not only has political correctness reached epidemic proportions in higher education, but so have mismanagement, waste, and corruption. The cause: a long history of expanding government involvement which has created a class of dependents whose lust for easy money is matched only by their irresponsibility. Roche [...]
1Jan1995 | Steven Yates | 1 comment | Continued-
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