http://clarespark.com/2009/11/02/a-ride-through-the-culture-wars-in-academe/ The Clare Spark Daily Blog Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:39:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://clarespark.com/2009/11/02/a-ride-through-the-culture-wars-in-academe/#comment-912 Index to Black Power blogs « YDS: The Clare Spark Blog Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:34:30 +0000 http://clarespark.com/?p=783#comment-912 [...] http://clarespark.com/2009/11/02/a-ride-through-the-culture-wars-in-academe/ [...] [...] http://clarespark.com/2009/11/02/a-ride-through-the-culture-wars-in-academe/ [...]

]]> http://clarespark.com/2009/11/02/a-ride-through-the-culture-wars-in-academe/#comment-651 Racism, Modernity, Modernism « YDS: The Clare Spark Blog Sun, 11 Apr 2010 15:40:18 +0000 http://clarespark.com/?p=783#comment-651 [...]     Don’t scratch your head about the deficiencies in our public school education.  There is no moral imperative for those who identify with aristocracies, new or old, to give students the analytic tools they need to judge their superiors or elected officials. If there was serious education in our country, all students would study the sciences, economics (including the basic elements of accounting), the history of every social movement in the U.S. and the conflicts that they addressed, the wily ways of those who have governed us, and how to decipher the propaganda that urges deference to corrupt authority—from pre-school on through graduate school! (And I am not exempting the scrutiny of both high and popular culture from this menu. See the Ibsen excerpt here: http://clarespark.com/2009/11/02/a-ride-through-the-culture-wars-in-academe/. [...] [...]     Don’t scratch your head about the deficiencies in our public school education.  There is no moral imperative for those who identify with aristocracies, new or old, to give students the analytic tools they need to judge their superiors or elected officials. If there was serious education in our country, all students would study the sciences, economics (including the basic elements of accounting), the history of every social movement in the U.S. and the conflicts that they addressed, the wily ways of those who have governed us, and how to decipher the propaganda that urges deference to corrupt authority—from pre-school on through graduate school! (And I am not exempting the scrutiny of both high and popular culture from this menu. See the Ibsen excerpt here: http://clarespark.com/2009/11/02/a-ride-through-the-culture-wars-in-academe/. [...]

]]> http://clarespark.com/2009/11/02/a-ride-through-the-culture-wars-in-academe/#comment-247 White Walls and Shadows: Irrationalist explanations for Nazism, pro and con « YDS: The Clare Spark Blog Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:42:53 +0000 http://clarespark.com/?p=783#comment-247 [...] A Rough Ride Through The Culture Wars [...] [...] A Rough Ride Through The Culture Wars [...]

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