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The Assault on American Excellence
- De: Anthony T. Kronman
- Narrado por: Anthony Kronman
- Duración: 9 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
The Assault on American Excellence makes the case that the boundless impulse for democratic equality gripping college campuses today is a threat to institutions whose job is to prepare citizens to live in a vibrant democracy. Three centuries ago, the founders of our nation saw that for this country to have a robust government, it must have citizens trained to have tough skins, to make up their own minds, and to win arguments not on the basis of emotion but because their side is closer to the truth. Without that, Americans would risk electing demagogues.
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5 out of 5 stars
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For Whom is He Writing?
- De Craig en 08-24-19
- The Assault on American Excellence
- De: Anthony T. Kronman
- Narrado por: Anthony Kronman
Confusing premise, excellent book
Revisado: 08-27-19
I find the book confusing in its main premise. I am coming from an ex-communist country where universities are still breeding dissatisfaction with democracy as a result of the lost prestige that professors enjoyed in communist times. This is masked exactly as spiritual aristocratism, but is a poison administered cynically to students who are thought to distrust businessmen, politicians, basically anybody enjoying the prestige 'stolen' from the red philosopher kings. I have also seen in developed democracy academic figures administring the same poisonous pill. So deeply suspicious of universities as only passive receivers of un-aristocratic ideals from the political sphere.
Other than that - spectacularly honest and intellectually and morally rewarding book.
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