David Randall

Director of Research at the National Association of Scholars and Executive Director of the Civics Alliance. Fan of Montaigne, Austen, Bellamy, and Lafferty.

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@PseudoJonathan Oshgay.

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@MinooFramroze Who gets to be Nirad Chaudhuri?

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The GERs at the University of Iowa will be taught by the Center for Intellectual Freedom. This is a splendid stipulation, which should ensure that U-Iowa follows policymaker intent.

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Congratulations to Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds (@IAGovernor), who has just signed House File 2800 into law. The provisions include 2 General Education Requirements in American History and American Government in Iowa's public universities. Great news for Iowans!

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"American education has been a morass, and our schools have been slipping ever deeper, unable to find a footing. The Four Foundations can provide a support in the swamp—and, eventually, we can build a way to dry land."

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"The Heritage Foundation's _Higher Education in America_ aims to communicate the conclusions and recommendations of the higher education reform world to a broader audience. It succeeds admirably in that mission."

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@MinooFramroze @NicholasOShaug1 It’s the ism that’s anachronistic. More polemic than analysis at best, saying more of theorist than theorized. Distorts motivation, hence real history, applied to the deep past. Used by people who pride themselves on knowing their subjects better than they knew themselves.

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@shulsie I dream of founding my own journal so I can reject my work more quickly.

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@DiogenesInExile Frankly, it is one of the slower classics! -- but worth a look-see ...

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"We should love what our forefathers wrote, and we should love our language and its books. But we also should be curious about and appreciative of the works of our fellows."

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“We all have enough strength to bear the troubles of other people, Charlie Brown.”

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Had a sudden vision of Peanuts cartoons with the dialogue supplied by La Rochefoucauld’s Maxims.

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"Ensuring equal opportunity in the admissions process at our nation’s public flagship universities is critical
for fairness, accountability, and restoring the public trust."

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"It is the job of archaeologists, as scientists, to educate—not to toe the line of political correctness."

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"Improving the ecosphere of scholarly publishing across fields is not only a worthwhile endeavor but one that is consequential for reforming higher education and improving American discourse."

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@j_amesmarriott I was going to ask if you liked Manning. She’s hugely underrated imo

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Ruth Draper’s monologues bear comparison to Tony Parker’s oral histories. A modern performer could do a great show reciting Tony Parker extracts.

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@arisroussinos The way modern Spain split up Castile into regions, each no longer able by itself to outweigh the Catalans and Basques, might be comparable.

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"CLT and the state of Florida are doing wonderful, essential work to build a new education system. Now it is our responsibility to see that our states and school districts will take full advantage of the work they’ve done."

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@BamaExpat Also, the nuances are the joy of history.