To: DumpsterDiver
Read Robert Ringer: Restoring the American Dream, Hayek's Road to Serfdom and Davidson's The Sovereign Individual.
23 posted on
07/10/2004 8:27:34 AM PDT by
narses
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To: narses
Thank you for the reading list.
To: narses
Re: Hayek's "Road to Serfdom"
Milton Friedman writes in the introduction, "I use the term "liberal"...in the original nineteenth-century sense of limited government and free markets, not in the corrupted sense it has acquired in the United States, in which it means almost the opposite".
There used to be a time when a "liberal arts" education would have taught students the classics, including critical thinking skills. Now, the socialist professors have corrupted the minds of the latter-day baby boomers and generations "X" and "Y".
Liberal Arts now means creating, identifying, and using the government to protect society's "victims", why Republicans are mean, stupid, and evil geniuses, and how to braid your underarm hair (for womb-en only).
Allan Bloom covered the subject of the loss of a true liberal education in his book, "The Closing of the American Mind".
29 posted on
07/10/2004 9:29:17 AM PDT by
LA Conservative
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