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Questions are democracies’ currency. There is no subject unqualified for scrutiny. Shields of authenticity and stamps of approval in a dynamic cultural and political environment ought be rare. Questions cause changes of mind; answers help implement those changes.
Thomas Mallon has asks, in the Spring ’07 issue of The American Scholar, some 10 difficult yet revealing […]
When will so many Americans finally educate themselves? This is not an unreasonable question. American society now has a large segment of the population (though nowhere near a majority) that openly agrees with George W. Bush’s assertion that he will do whatever is necessary to “win in Iraq,” regardless “what Congress has decided.” Such language […]
Are on-line book reviews the worst sort of book report, emblematic of the neo-Western education system combined with the Internet’s come one/come all open forum? Or is it a mixed bag of well-meaning, passionate readers versus the cranks who have an agenda? For controversial books, a site visitor to Barnes & Noble or Amazon can […]
In a thinking environment, Pat Robertson is an easy target. The host of The 700 Club, twice US presidential-primary candidate (1988 & 1992), and friend to one too many American presidents has again entered the news cycle. Robertson’s yearly prognostications list “mass killing” in America from a terrorist attack, and that America is feigning friendship […]
In Danville, Pennsylvania, police just today are reported to have dropped disorderly conduct charges against a 12-year-old special education student for wetting her pants “on purpose” — as the charges stated. Whatever else can possibly happen in a school situation, does one not consider that when police are called they represent a semblance, just a […]
