[David Gordon will teach Political Thought through the Ages , a 6-week online course at the Mises Academy, starting June 7, 2012.] In a famous essay , Benjamin Constant distinguished between the “liberty of the ancients” and the “liberty of the moderns.” Ancient political thought subordinated the individual to the community, Constant argued, while
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
Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice by Fredrik deBoer All Points Books, 2020 276 pages What is the Cult of Smart? According to Fredrik deBoer, who has been for much of his adult life an educator, It is difficult to overstate how thoroughly the
Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. Re-reading Economics in Literature: A Capitalist Critical Perspective by Matt Spivey Lexington Books, 2021 133 pages Matt Spivey asks an important question. Literary critics often use economics to interpret the texts they consider, but often they have mistaken ideas about economics. They
Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America por John McWhorter Portfolio/Penguin, 2021, xv + 201 pp. John McWhorter es un eminente profesor de lingüística que enseña en Columbia. Él mismo es negro, y sostiene que el racismo «woke» no ayuda a los negros ni a otras minorías. Según él, se ha convertido en una religión, y sus acólitos
The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System social por Fredrik deBoer All Points Books, 2020 276 páginas ¿Qué es el culto a lo inteligente? Según Fredrik deBoer, quien ha sido durante gran parte de su vida adulta un educador, Es difícil exagerar cuán profundamente la carrera armamentista colegial domina la vida de los adolescentes
Re-reading Economics in Literature: A Capitalist Critical Perspective por Matt Spivey Lexington Books, 2021 133 páginas Matt Spivey hace una pregunta importante. Los críticos literarios a menudo usan la economía para interpretar los textos que consideran, pero a menudo tienen ideas equivocadas sobre la economía. Se oponen al libre mercado y son
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