Political scientist and NAS board member Bruce Gilley’s article “The Case for Colonialism” (republished in Academic Questions in the summer of 2018), has been the subject of countless critical essays, conference panels, seminar discussions, and journal articles. Here Gilley responds to his critics.
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A review of "The Last Imperialist: Sir Alan Burns’s Epic Defense of the British Empire," by Bruce Gilley, 2021, Regnery Gateway, pp. 256, $24.06 hardbound
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From election to election the left makes clearer its goals to radically transform American society from that of standards based on merit and equity. As that tide continues to roll, AQ continues to preserve our vision of our society, civilization, culture, and intellectual standards by provoking thought and suggesting reforms.
{"title":"Up from the Memory Hole","authors":"C. Iannone","doi":"10.51845/35.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51845/35.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"From election to election the left makes clearer its goals to radically transform American society from that of standards based on merit and equity. As that tide continues to roll, AQ continues to preserve our vision of our society, civilization, culture, and intellectual standards by provoking thought and suggesting reforms.","PeriodicalId":35247,"journal":{"name":"Academic Questions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47709975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Should the racial views of great thinkers from centuries past factor into modern evaluations of their work? Philosophy professor Darren Hibbs addresses this question and suggests a model for how the currently unpalatable views of philosophical luminaries should be approached in scholarship and in the classroom. Each discrete doctrine must be scrutinized to determine the relevance of the author's view on race.
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A review of "Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America," by John McWhorter, Portfolio/Penguin, 2021, pp. 201, $18.01 hardcover.
约翰·麦克沃特(John McWhorter)的《沃克种族主义:新宗教如何背叛美国黑人》(Woke Racism:How A New Religion Has Betrayed Black America)评论,投资组合/企鹅出版社,2021年,第201页,精装本18.01美元。
{"title":"John McWhorter Takes a Mulligan","authors":"Seth Forman","doi":"10.51845/35.1.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51845/35.1.18","url":null,"abstract":"A review of \"Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America,\" by John McWhorter, Portfolio/Penguin, 2021, pp. 201, $18.01 hardcover.","PeriodicalId":35247,"journal":{"name":"Academic Questions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49381819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A review of "Michael Gold: The People’s Writer," by Patrick Chura, State University of New York Press, 2020, pp. 354, $95.00 hardcover, $26.95 softcover
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A review of "A Book Too Risky to Publish: Free Speech and Universities," by James R. Flynn, Academica Press, 2020, pp. 332, $29.95 paper; $28.45 kindle.
{"title":"Suppressing Speech: Worse than McCarthyism","authors":"R. Maranto","doi":"10.51845/35.1.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51845/35.1.17","url":null,"abstract":"A review of \"A Book Too Risky to Publish: Free Speech and Universities,\" by James R. Flynn, Academica Press, 2020, pp. 332, $29.95 paper; $28.45 kindle.","PeriodicalId":35247,"journal":{"name":"Academic Questions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49417101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
At the tail end of humanity’s greatest wars, mid-twentieth-century psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and others set about discovering “national character,” the grand search for cultural mores that might explain the behavior of nation states. These efforts ran aground, writes historian Daniel Pipes, as social scientists ignored the most important catalyst for the actions of nation-states: history.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1007/s12129-004-1011-8
S. Ravindran
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A review of "Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World," Clive Hamilton, Mareike Ohlberg, One World Publications, 2020, pp. 418, $17.41 hardbound.
《隐藏的手:揭露中国共产党如何重塑世界》评论,Clive Hamilton,Mareike Ohlberg,One World Publications,2020,第418页,精装17.41美元。
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