Solid book review of the problems of modern American conservatism. The piece most praised is by my father's good friend Daniel Mahoney.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/books/review/Rauch-t.html?_r=1&emc=eta1&oref=slogin
Random Reflections on Higher Education by a Dean on Sabbatical
About Me
- Ed Ericson
- A former history professor and now college administrator, I started using this blog primarily to catalog my various reflections during a 2007 sabbatical.
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- Nature vs. nurture in global success?
- Divorce for "any cause"
- Wellness programs at JBU?
- In search of your inner executive?
- Science Education Myths?
- Beauty is universal?
- Why do higher education cost increases outpace CPI?
- Religion as an antidote to poverty?
- How to get into an Ivy?
- Going green won't make you rich?
- No more haggling over car prices?
- The future of the Anglosphere?
- Conservatism at middle age?
- Indoctrination via secondary accreditation?
- The coming health care compromise?
- The effect of private schools?
- The Mars-Venus Myth?
- Mission accomplished in Iraq?
- Influence of family on longevity?
- The rising influence of the home-school movement
- Political inclinations of faculty
- The purpose of the appendix?
- Hitchens on sacrifice in Iraq
- How effective is school choice?
- A looming scandal at Oral Roberts University
- On Presidents & Provosts
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