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Educational Compulsions

In his  On the Square this morning , Russell E. Saltzman reports on a curious proposal in Utah: Utah state senator Aaron Osmond has proposed eliminating compulsory public school education. He is a member of the senate’s education appropriations committee. Critics suggest—among other . . . . Continue Reading »

Various and Heterogeneous Noetic Issues

1. I will be speaking at a BIG-TIME PANEL at the APSA against NSF funding for political “scientists.” This is on the basis of a quicky blog that was linked here and there as an example evilthinking. I could bring up the noetic heterogeneity issue. But it seems to me that the expanded . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 8.1.13

Sea Change Lewis H. Lapham, Lapham’s Quarterly Forgiveness Wins: The Perversity of the Prodigal Father Cosmos in the Lost Conservative Catholics and the New Pope Ross Douthat, Evaluations Out of the Antiworld James Kalb, Intercollegiate Review How Seminal Was Burke? Simon Heffer, Standpoint . . . . Continue Reading »

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