Sunday, November 15th, 2009
In this essay, originally published in Harper’s in 1964, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Richard Hofstadter offers an astute thematic analysis of paranoia in American politics. He examines the paranoid reactions to Masons, Catholics, Jesuits, Communists and others. Sadly, perhaps his perceptions are as timely as ever.
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Saturday, September 8th, 2007
“Ask yourself what you need to know to make this the kind of world you would like to live in. Demand that your teachers teach you that.”
The assignment
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Contemplating the root of the word “idiocy” leads Dr. Walter
Parker to explore the challenge that democratic societies
face of developing public-minded citizens. The schools,
he argues, are the most likely institutions to succeed in
that task.
The Article
The Response Sheet
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