“Expressing a Patriotic Core” was posted on Schools Matter today. This is a review of “How Self-Expression Damaged My Students,” by Robert Pondiscio in The Atlantic Monthly. Pondiscio is a PR man for The Core Knowledge Foundation which is the nationalist organization founded by conservative educationalist E. D. Hirsch, Jr. I spend a good part [...]
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Experts Serving Interests: Academic Collusion in the Corporate State
Readers of Errant musings know that my primary focus seems to always have a common theme: the loss of local human good to the abstractions of wealth and power. We are seeing a very rapid decline in social goods “produced” by human economy replaced rapidly and without check by the externally and mechanically produced “cultural” [...]
