Some academics, he says, either do not know what their job is or prefer to do something else. He recommends a "narrow sense" of the academic vocation that precludes saving the world, a mission for which academics have no special qualifications. Universities talk about making students sensitive, compassionate, tolerant, democratic, etc., but those bland adjectives [...]
Archive for November 2008
School Failure and a Country’s Decline
November 13, 2008Thomas Sowell and Shelby Steele on Barack Obama’s Election
November 12, 2008We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.
November 11, 2008We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia, [...]
Miracle Enough
November 11, 2008To live at all is miracle enough.(Mervyn Peake, The Glassblower, 1950)
Autopsy, Republican Party
November 10, 2008The various Republican constituencies need some reason to hang together. It's not obvious what socially conservative, big-government types like Mike Huckabee have in common with economically conservative libertines like Rudy Giuliani. So why are they in the same party? It used to be because they both hated communism. Then it was Bill Clinton. Most recently, [...]
President Elect Obama take notice
November 7, 2008The color of our skin, the color of our eyes
November 6, 2008We All Can Fly, and Yes We Can
November 4, 2008Rosa Parks sat so that Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so that Obama could run. Obama's running so that we all can fly. I can't wait until 5 November and I'm going to say 'Hello, Brother President'.(Jay-Z, rapper)
