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In his book, Indoctrination U, David Horowitz describes what he believes is a widespread crisis in American colleges and universities: professors who use their classrooms as forums for partisan politics and violate their students' academic freedom by trying to inculcate them with one-sided political views.  From his vantage point, whole fields of inquiry, such as Ethnic Studies, Peace Studies, and Gender Studies, are guilty of indoctrinating their students because they are based in…

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I recently posted on the Announcements page an invitation for Cambridge-area CMEI members to join me in a new project on "Justice in Schools" that intentionally creates a two-way street between normative theory (i.e., principles about what the right/moral/ethical thing is to do) and empirical practice (i.e. what actually happens in the world). As I explain there, I think that educators would be helped by… Continue

We seem to be facing a new wave of racial animosity in our country right now, from the Florida preacher who threatened to burn a Koran unless the Manhattan Islamic center was moved, to Arizona’s new immigration law legalizing racial profiling; from Glenn Beck high-jacking Dr. King’s march anniversary on the Mall in DC with an overwhelmingly white Tea Party crowd, to the New York gubernatorial candidate who won the Republican nomination after sending monkey pictures and tribal dance emails… Continue

In 1821 the poet and playwright Heinrich Heine wrote in a play: "That was but a prelude; where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people also." That was 112 years before Hitler’s supporters ominously burned books in Berlin's Opernplatz, but plenty of books, and people, had burned in earlier centuries in the fight against heresy. However, let us be clear; if Terry Jones wanted to have a private garden bonfire at his home where he burned his copies of the Qur’an and Bible along with… Continue