Dictatorship of Virtue: How the Battle over Multiculturalism Is Reshaping Our Schools, Our Countr...
In a fiercely provocative book that will generate debate for years to come, Bernstein shows how multicultural orthodoxy has created a highly lucrat...
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Dec 31, 2010
Hubert
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Richard Bernstein makes some strong points regarding the zealousness of multiculturalism inside and outside the academy. But despite 350+ pages of densely worded text, he presents scant evidence as to why multicultural studies has failed. There are cases in which young people do seem like they are denied a quality education (I'm thinking of the chapter on the Minn. school). But while the case of Intro Writing course E-306 at UT-Austin was well covered, in general, is it so wrong that university
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Sep 08, 2008
Jacob
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This was an assigned reading in an American Studies survey course that I once took. As far as I could tell, the thesis animating the course was that the pragmatism of Peirce, James, and Dewey had been perverted over several decades into the gooey bullshit of relativism and "political correctness." I don't know about that, but if the American intellect is in jeopardy, I'm inclined to look elsewhere when assigning blame, and, besides, it's clear that any victims of political correctnes
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