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Bezig met laden... The Burden of Bad Ideas: How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Societydoor Heather Mac Donald
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. title tells it all This is one of the worst books I have tried to read in some time. The facts seem to be in order, albeit very selectively chosen to support a rigid, right-wing ideology. Her interpretation of the facts is where this book falls down. She often takes outrageous sounding events or quotes out of context, thus making them seem all that more outrageous. In most cases what she shares could easily be interpreted quite differently than she chooses to. Not only is she extremely biased, she also conveniently leaves out any facts that might refute, or weaken, her one-sided conclusions. After the introduction and one chapter I had to quit. I couldn't take any more. The only people who will likely enjoy this book are those who are already extremely conservative and close-minded. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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. In The Burden of Bad Ideas, Heather Mac Donald reports on their disastrous effects throughout our society. At a Brooklyn high school, students perfect their graffiti skills for academic credit. An Ivy League law professor urges blacks to steal from their employers. Washington bureaucrats regard theft by drug addicts as evidence of disability, thereby justifying benefits. 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 professional elite who are convinced that America is a deeply unjust society. And while these beliefs have damaged the nation as a whole, she observes, they have hit the poor especially hard. Her reports trace the transformation of influential opinion-makers (such as the New York Times) and large philanthropic foundations from confident advocates of individual responsibility, opportunity, and learning into apologists for the welfare state. In a series of closely reported stories from the streets of New York to the seats of intellectual power, The Burden of Bad Ideas reveals an upside-down world and how it got that way. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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