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• Creationism - Salon.com

  
  Sapere Aude! — Authority: 133
  Creationism - Salon.com . Americas universities are supposed to be marketplaces of ideas, butlast week they looked more like theaters of the absurd, asrepresentatives of an evangelical group descended on an undeterminednumber of campuses to hand out free copies of Charles Darwins "TheOrigin of Species." The catch: ...
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• The Abyss at the End of the Weekend

  
  Just Above Sunset — Authority: 129
  Sunday evening is always a problem. The kids know they go back to school in the morning, and they’re sullen and morose. Even if they did their homework they know there’s probably something wrong with it – something they overlooked, some mistake they just could not see no matter how many times they stared at the ...
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• Regarding the Landscape of Incoherent White American Resentment

  
  Just Above Sunset — Authority: 129
  They call him Tweety Bird for a reason. Chris Matthews is the guy, with his political talk show on MSNBC, Hardball. He flits around, topic to topic, you never know what he’s going to say next, and he loves to ask strange hypothetical political questions, which he thinks are provocative and really challenge his ...
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• Close Enough

  
  Just Above Sunset — Authority: 129
  Richard Hofstadter died in 1970 and was a man for the fifties and sixties, so he shouldn’t matter. But in his day he was quite the public intellectual, back it the day when we had those, that brief time in American cultural life when big thinkers were big deals. Einstein was at Princeton and not the punch line for ...
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• Anti-Intellectualism Revisited

  
  Professor Olsen @ Large — Authority: 128
  Susan Jacoby maintains that a dumbing down of Americans has been going on for several decades, as a result of a combination of irresistible forces.First and foremost among the vectors of the new anti-intellectualism is electronic media. The major casualties of our current media-saturated life are three things ...
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• White people think they know all about you from reading a book.

  
  Restructure! — Authority: 408
  Sometimes a white person says something about people of colour that is untrue, and when you correct her, the white person will insist that she is right because she read it in a book . You know that it is untrue because you do not (or somebody you know does not) fit into that generalization; thus, it is inaccurate ...
  2 weeks ago

• Should Everyone go to College? (No. 2)

  
  Professor Olsen @ Large — Authority: 128
  This is the second of a series of occasional posts that will deal with this question.President Obama, in his adopted role of “school-superintendent-in-chief,” has recently called on every American to receive at least one year of higher education or vocational training. However, there is no agreement among ...
  3 weeks ago

• "An Epidemic of Fear." Wired takes on the anti-vax movement

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 744
  Wired profiles pediatrician Paul Offit, co-creator of the RotaTeq rotavirus vaccine and a primary target of the anti - vacci nation movement . Dr. Offit published a book,“ Autism’s False Prophets ” in 2008 but didnt tour, because he had received too many death threats . The profile by Amy ...
  4 weeks ago

• “Academic Freedom” in Israel

  
  harmonicminor.com — Authority: 100
  Israeli academics are being watched. Vigilantes check what they say or write – and, if they are judged “anti-Israel,” incite donors to the universities and colleges where they teach to act against them. Students are encouraged to spy on their teachers and to report what they say. Academics on the left are the ...
  5 weeks ago

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