The Burden of Bad Ideas: How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Society MacDonald HeatherPaperback
The Burden of Bad Ideas: How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Society MacDonald HeatherPaperback Critics have attacked the foolishness of some of today's elite thought from many angles, but few have…
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The Burden of Bad Ideas: How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Society MacDonald HeatherPaperback
Critics have attacked the foolishness of some of today's elite thought from many angles, but few have examined the real-world consequences of those ideas. At a Brooklyn high school, students perfect their graffiti skills for academic credit. In The Burden of Bad Ideas, Heather Mac Donald reports on their disastrous effects throughout our society.
Washington bureaucrats regard theft by drug addicts as evidence of disability, thereby justifying benefits. An Ivy League law professor urges blacks to steal from their employers. Public health officials argue that racism and sexism cause women to get AIDS.
America's premier monument to knowledge, the Smithsonian Institution, portrays science as white man's religion. Such absurdities, Ms. Mac Donald argues, grow out of a powerful set of ideas that have governed our public policy for decades, the product of university faculties and a
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