Progressive Overreach and the Procrustes Impulse
…fast. Looking at history, social justice warriors would have had a better assessment before the 1960s. After the 1960s, the assessment shifted over the decades until those social justice warriors…
…fast. Looking at history, social justice warriors would have had a better assessment before the 1960s. After the 1960s, the assessment shifted over the decades until those social justice warriors…
…will be able to adapt these lessons to any high school Civics or United States History class. Teachers should find Constitution Week easy to use. Each of these five lessons…
…affairs—is not law per se, but law’s deep antecedents; the principles that slowly evolved into what we call law. That includes history above all else. It includes the broader humanities…
…Euclid does not lead to an examined life. No History There are two approaches to the inclusion of history in a Great Books curriculum: reading history and reading old…
…other hand, make it necessary to have recourse to their assistance.” Those were the words of William Legge, better known to history as Lord Dartmouth, the English Secretary of State…
…real agreement on what is meant by “merit review.” Early in NSF’s history, reviewers were asked to judge proposals on “scientific merit” and “competence of the investigator.” Since then, the…
…entitled to various procedural due process protections which have yet to be determined.” However, there is a history of schools failing to fulfill due process requirements even before the new…
…theological vision of a “restatement of the gospel with rich implications for life, ministry and mission in a type of culture at a moment in history.”[15] I believe a similar…
…adopting it…Snow is in fact portentously ignorant…of history, of the nature of civilization and of the history of its recent developments, of the human history of the Industrial Revolution, of…
…claims about the history of the conflict and of the massacre itself. Farsakh spoke of the supposed “rise in violence against the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza,” downplaying…
…be a loss leader for a college when the athletic teams function as effective marketing and recruiting for the school—and even family history—e.g., legacy admits aren’t about the student at…
…also been the case in many societies throughout history. Of course, too much stress on the body also causes problems like injuries, exhaustion, and sickness. Dealing with stress to the…
…tradition-minded professors in the humanities and social sciences who can teach the history and the ideals of Western civilization and of America must be priority number one. The far-left education…
…summarizing all of Roman history in the space of a few paragraphs, ends by providing an answer to a question that must have arisen in the minds of his Roman…
…few countries abolished slavery before the United States and that Christianity was often used to justify slavery. I saw one claim that the reason Republicans don’t want history taught is…
…the progressive model of Jewish oppressor and Arab victim, to make signs, and take to the streets with glib slogans. Absolute ignorance of the history of the Middle East, of…
…Even though the study acknowledges that credit history and exceeding debt-to-income ratio are the most common factors for mortgage denial, which in turn explains the imbalances in racial representation of…
If you are at all familiar with the history of Western Civilization or perhaps the movie 300, then you probably already know the basics about the Battle of Thermopylae. 2500…
…history, and management science. Law remains especially susceptible to ideological influence, as the culture within law schools often reinforces ideologies through special interest rules presented as expressions of justice. Our…
…in the history of life on Earth.” The media is full of contradictory predictions that AI is going to take our jobs, destroy our creativity, fight us with killer robots,…
…of policies that aim to fix questionable predictions about the current and future environment. Curry provides a careful history and understanding of risk analysis with attendant cautionary and precautionary principles…
…were tenuously consolidated antagonists in the last overtly religious conflagration of European history. For these reasons, the precision by which these two plays mirror each other merits our attention. They…
…poses grave dangers to the profession of medicine and to patient care. The history of medical progress, especially when it comes to good patient care, is filled with examples of…
…Impeachment is rare in American history. Most federal impeachments have involved judges, typically for official misconduct—drunkenness on the bench is a no-no, and yet what about “In vino veritas?” Presidential…
…American history, citizenship, and Western civilization, and more recently “diversity” mandates and courses in ethnic and gender studies. Utah State Senator John D. Johnson has just introduced Senate Bill 226,…
…first President of the United States stump them, even though they’re in the presence of D.C.’s presidential monuments. Even the history major couldn’t recount basic facts about American history; she…
…courses tend to overlook the influence of religion, particularly Protestant Christianity. In a conversation with a close friend who holds a B.A. in History from my alma mater, Texas A&M…
…oral history—were permissible; and all kinds of evidence could be challenged. This allowed for repatriation to progress and unaffiliated remains and artifacts to be retained and used for research. This…
…and social science “studies” since they are as deeply embedded with Marxism as the aforementioned. For example, sociology, anthropology, history, political science, psychology, criminology, and geography must be disassembled. Economics,…
…has a deep tradition in teaching law, and its academy are noteworthy for their more astute understanding of legal history, jurisprudence, and the linkages between law and philosophy. The U.K….