Tag: Intellectuals

1231: Thomas Sowell – We’re Raising Kids Who Regard Facts as Optional

I think we’re raising whole generations who regard facts as more or less optional. We have kids in elementary school who are being urged to take stands on political issues, to write letters to congressmen and presidents about nuclear energy. They’re not a decade old, and they’re being thrown these kinds of questions that can absorb the lifetime of a very brilliant and learned man. And they’re being taught that it’s important to have views, and they’re not being taught that it’s important to know what you’re talking about. It’s important to hear the opposite viewpoint, and more important to learn how to distinguish why viewpoint A and viewpoint B are different, and which one has the most evidence or logic behind it. They disregard that. They hear something, they hear some rhetoric, and they run with it. —Thomas Sowell

1125: Michael Rectenwald – Totalitarian Moral Arrogance & Lack of Humility

W1125: Michael Rectenwald - Totalitarian Moral Arrogance — The primary characteristic of totalitarian ideologues is essentially moral arrogance, a complete lack of moral humility, and the certain conviction that they themselves are justice incarnate. They thus believe that they are completely justified to exert their will to achieve their desired ends 'by any means necessary'. Such ideologues rejoiced when God was declared 'dead', as such, because now they could assume the authority of God for themselves. —Michael Rectenwald (Springtime for Snowflakes)

The primary characteristic of totalitarian ideologues is essentially moral arrogance, a complete lack of moral humility, and the certain conviction that they themselves are justice incarnate. They thus believe that they are completely justified to exert their will to achieve their desired ends 'by any means necessary'. Such ideologues rejoiced when God was declared 'dead', as such, because now they could assume the authority of God for themselves. —Michael Rectenwald (Springtime for Snowflakes)

The primary characteristic of totalitarian ideologues is essentially moral arrogance, a complete lack of moral humility, and the certain conviction that they themselves are justice incarnate. They thus believe that they are completely justified to exert their will to achieve their desired ends ‘by any means necessary’. Such ideologues rejoiced when God was declared ‘dead’, as such, because now they could assume the authority of God for themselves. —Michael Rectenwald (Springtime for Snowflakes)

1124: Michael Rectenwald – Real Diversity in Higher Education

W1124: Michael Rectenwald - Real Diversity — If we want to foster real diversity in higher education, we had better consider not only diversity of identity but also diversity of thought and perspective. It is this kind of diversity that we are supposed to recognize and foster in the first place. —Michael Rectenwald (Springtime for Snowflakes)

If we want to foster real diversity in higher education, we had better consider not only diversity of identity but also diversity of thought and perspective. It is this kind of diversity that we are supposed to recognize and foster in the first place. —Michael Rectenwald (Springtime for Snowflakes)

If we want to foster real diversity in higher education, we had better consider not only diversity of identity but also diversity of thought and perspective. It is this kind of diversity that we are supposed to recognize and foster in the first place. —Michael Rectenwald (Springtime for Snowflakes)

1074: Josh Tolley – Socialists in Politics and Academia

Socialists in Politics and Academia are convincing the emotionally compromised that the highest standard of living in history is akin to 1800’s poverty, and they must sacrifice their potential greatness for the suffocating mediocracy of socialism. —Josh Tolley (The Josh Tolley Show)

Socialists in Politics and Academia are convincing the emotionally compromised that the highest standard of living in history is akin to 1800’s poverty, and they must sacrifice their potential greatness for the suffocating mediocracy of socialism. —Josh Tolley (The Josh Tolley Show)

1043: Tom Woods – How Many Would Stand Up to Propaganda

W1043: Tom Woods - Stand Up to Propaganda — There are a lot that will generally cheer on the free-market. But how many are going to stand up to the entire regime, to its intellectuals, to its media, when the chips are down and the propaganda is flying? The number is vanishingly small. —Tom Woods

There are a lot that will generally cheer on the free-market. But how many are going to stand up to the entire regime, to its intellectuals, to its media, when the chips are down and the propaganda is flying? The number is vanishingly small. —Tom Woods

There are a lot that will generally cheer on the free-market. But how many are going to stand up to the entire regime, to its intellectuals, to its media, when the chips are down and the propaganda is flying? The number is vanishingly small. —Tom Woods

1031: Thomas Sowell – Poverty & Sense of Victimhood

W1031: Thomas Sowell - Sense of Victimhood — Intellectuals give people who have the handicap of poverty the further handicap of the sense of victimhood. —Thomas Sowell

Intellectuals give people who have the handicap of poverty the further handicap of the sense of victimhood. —Thomas Sowell