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In recent years there has been a spate of right-wing books attacking the contemporary university. The idea that the university curriculum has been hijacked by radical professors is an article of faith among conservatives and has fueled more than one best-seller. Until now, there has been no forceful, accessible book responding in a comprehensive way for a wide audience. In The Opening of the American Mind, MacArthur award-winning historian Lawrence...
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In Common Schools/Uncommon Identities, Walter Feinberg holds that public schools must maintain a commitment to liberal democratic values such as equality of opportunity, freedom of association, and individual development; at the same time, he challenges the view that this obligation is incompatible with demands for cultural recognition of minorities. He argues that varied social and historical conditions create different educational obligations to...
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Faculty members of the Universities of Bavaria and of Wuerttemburg failed to fight against the rise of Nazism during the Weimar period, even facilitating the Nazi seizure of power by refusing to accept political responsibility (adopting strongly German nationalist and often antisemitic ideas), promoting German virtues over democracy, and expressing elitist educational ideals. Mentions, also, antisemitism in the student organizations. Ch. 4 (pp. 67-86)...
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