Showing posts with label liberal education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label liberal education. Show all posts
Saturday, March 28, 2026

One Million Pageviews

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Because I get paid to write what other people want, I write whatever I want here. And I am cognizant of the fact that other people read this...
Sunday, April 20, 2025

Albeit they possess the Might ...

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Nonetheless, we have the will. Last Tuesday evening (April 15), after arriving home, feeding the cats, and changing out of my work clothes, ...
Sunday, April 28, 2024

Remembering the Slide Rule

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This came up as a thread in the “Off-Topic Observatory” of the Cloudy Nights discussion board for amateur astronomers. People have all kinds...
Sunday, August 5, 2018

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

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Nothing has changed in the fifty years since Richard Hofstadter chronicled the history of anti-intellectualism. The warning bell may seem m...
Sunday, November 5, 2017

President Trump and the Military

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A recent poll by the Military Times supports academic studies by staff officers: Commissioned officers are a self-selected elite while non-...
Sunday, December 15, 2013

CIRCUMFERENCE

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Democritus of Abdera posited the existence of atoms. Aristotle accurately described the embryology of the chick.  Aristarchus put the sun a...
Tuesday, April 9, 2013

The Science of Liberty

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The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature by Timothy Ferris is excellent assembly of cogent essays is an extended...
Sunday, August 12, 2012

Profits and Benefits in Foreign Languages

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  Should we trust university professors who deny the value of a university education? In the past year, several prominent libertarian p...
Friday, July 27, 2012

The Pretense of Sociology

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The Pretense of Knowledge: Of What Use is Sociology? On the OrgTheory   blog Jennifer Lena ( bio here ) replied with some numbers to F...
Saturday, March 3, 2012

Another Cheer for American Education

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A hundred years ago, an eighth-grade education was sufficient.  In 1910 only 5% of Americans entered high school.  Then, the “high school m...