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Speaking Truth to Power: The British Prime Minister Who Defended the American Colonies1
The popular phrase, “speak truth to power,” implies that power is hostile to truth and that power might benefit from giving truth a hearing. It also suggests that the speaker runs some risk for speaking it. People unafraid to speak truth to power are among the great heroes of history. They raise our standards and
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The Root of Today’s Worldwide Education Problem Is Staring Us in the Face0
- Education, International
- October 7, 2022
“Our schools,” reports a knowledgeable observer, “are producing ignoramuses.” The average graduate, he explains, “does not know how to read critically, write expressively, or debate intelligently and politely.” Meantime, the unions are opposing huge, proposed increases in beginner-teacher salaries because, instead, they want higher pay for teachers with seniority, regardless of individual performance. Are we
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Remembering One of Stalin’s Forgotten Killing Sprees3
- History, Politics, Uncategorized
- August 12, 2022
Power kills. Absolute power kills too many to count. Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin spoke with personal authority on the subject when he famously said, “A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.” To write about any one or more massacres for which Stalin was responsible, one must first answer the question, “Which
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Hannah Arendt’s Chilling Thesis on Evil4
- History, Philosophy, Uncategorized
- August 2, 2022
Nine months after the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann died at the end of a noose in Israel, a controversial but thoughtful commentary about his trial appeared in The New Yorker. The public reaction stunned its author, the famed political theorist and Holocaust survivor Hannah Arendt (1906-1975). It was February 1963. Arendt’s eyewitness assessment of
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