Thank goodness for people like Thomas Piketty. In February, respected New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof lamented the insularity of academia in the face of anti-intellectualism in American life. Academia’s willful isolationism behind arcane and inaccessible...
Are we educating towards conformity of thought, or towards independence of mind? Is our system of education, perhaps our entire approach to equipping ourselves with knowledge, premised upon acceptance instead of challenge, received wisdom instead of discovery? In the...
