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This is a dimension where knowledge of the world—that same prior knowledge that needs activating—is the last thing that it would occur to anyone to actually teach children in schools.
Listen onSpotify Toby Young talks to Bruce Gilley, professor of political science at Portland State, about not being able to get his course on conservative political thought approved by his faculty, and his efforts to fight back against progressive authoritarianism on campus. He recently published a piece in Quillette about
Psychological scientists are quick to spot unwarranted causal inferences in others' research — but blind to the same errors in their own, possibly driven by ideological commitments and self-interest.
To a modern research scientist, all of this will seem like common sense, and such principles now are taught even in some undergraduate courses.
Clearly it is possible to do politics in philosophy without doing political philosophy.
The spread of mass education may have exemplified the promise of liberal civilization. The spread of mass education may have exemplified the promise of liberal civilization. But, without an understanding and appreciation of what allowed it to flourish, it could also accelerate its dissolution.
Right now, I’m maybe most spooked by how a living, breathing cultural memory is seeming to evaporate.
If the whole academe is meant to pursue truth, then it can be fine for different traditions to develop that are not perfect ideological representatives of society at large.
The ethical shortcomings of the 1969 Cornell student rebellion, which appear so glaring today, were anything but clear to us radical activists at the time.
The recently concluded libel trial involving Oberlin College offered a demonstration of this phenomenon on the part of both the defendants and much of the media covering the case.
Claims over what is being measured by a standardized assessment (referred to as a test’s construct) are where claims of scientific rigor can distort understanding of social goals associated with a particular test.
Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.
It may be neither politically correct nor pleasant to argue that aggregate group differences in behavior exist, but it’s essential for policymakers to have the proper diagnosis lest the prescribed cure do more harm than good.
The University of Melbourne is situated in the country’s most progressive major city, as evidenced by their unique propensity to elect the Greens to the lower house in federal politics.
Local MPs have also become involved, some of whom have failed to appreciate the dynamics of the situation.