What Tower? What Babel? Mises Review 3, No. 4 ( Winter 1997) CULTIVATING HUMANITY Martha C. Nussbaum Harvard University Press, 1997, 338 pgs. Conservatives and leftists often characterize the struggle over the contemporary university in the same way, though of course accompanied by opposing value judgments. On the one side stands the traditional
Island of Sanity Mises Review 3, No. 4 (Winter 1997) LITERATURE LOST John M. Ellis Yale University Press, 1997, x + 262 pgs. Like Martha Nussbaum, whose Cultivating Humanity is addressed above, John M. Ellis is concerned with multiculturalism. His excellent book, taken together with her less than excellent one, enables readers to gain a firm grasp
A Monopoly of Ignorance Mises Review 9, No. 3 (Winter 2003) THE WORM IN THE APPLE: HOW THE TEACHER UNIONS ARE DESTROYING AMERICAN EDUCATION Peter Brimelow Harper Collins, 2003, xxi + 296 pgs. If Peter Brimelow is to succeed in showing, as his subtitle states, that teacher unions — he has in mind principally the National Education Association — are
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