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[AI summary] The text presents a detailed critique of the arguments made by scholars like Daniel Moynihan and Charles Murray, who have attributed poverty and dysfunction among certain racial and ethnic groups in the United States to cultural factors. The author challenges these views by highlighting the diversity and complexity of African and African diasporic societies, as well as the historical and cultural contexts of Latin American and Mexican-American communities. The author argues that these groups cannot be characterized as uniformly collectivist, authoritarian, or lacking in individual ambition, and that such portrayals are based on flawed and often racist assumptions. The critique extends to the broader concept of 'cultural difference' as a way to e...
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Commentary: As colleges dump the liberal arts, the consequences for democracy are dire
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Dr Stephen Hicks of Rockford University is keen to defend the idea of medieval Christianity causing the "Dark Ages" and mangles history badly in the process
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Until the Industrial Revolution there was only one kind of malt. So we were told by maltsters at the seminar we attended a couple of years...
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