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The Book That Drove Them Crazy - "The Closing of the American Mind" 25 years later
The Weekly Standard Magazine ^
| April 5, 2012
| Andrew Ferguson
Posted on 04/05/2012 3:36:57 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Westbrook
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04/05/2012 9:36:06 AM PDT
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zeugma
(Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
bfl
Appreciate the reminding about this book, I had wanted to read it and it slipped off my screen.
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04/05/2012 9:38:52 AM PDT
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Attention Surplus Disorder
(The only economic certainty: When it all blows up, Krugman will say we didn't spend enough.)
To: Steely Tom
Then, seven years later, another book: The Bell Curve, by Richard J. Herrnstein, drove them crazy all over again.By misinterpreting one paragraph in a multi-hundred page book, by people who never read the book.
His studies and observations are just as valid today; perhaps more so.
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