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Recommended link of the week: http://intellectualtakeout.org
Review of Intellectual Takeout, and notes on how it might - in a small way - help to counter the arrogance of those who "jump the lectern"* with their minds newly closed and prejudices intact, here:
http://www.nas.org/polArticles.cfm?doctype_code=Article&doc_id=1251
Further commentary here: http://nasblog.org/2010/04/07/nas-welcomes-intellectual-takeout/
*Cheers to D for taking an old argument of mine, adding some pomo cultural spin, and running with it. (As a sidenote, the next Anodyne Swift entry deals almost exclusively with the taming of UK conflict junkies at last month's European funding free-for-all.)
Review of Intellectual Takeout, and notes on how it might - in a small way - help to counter the arrogance of those who "jump the lectern"* with their minds newly closed and prejudices intact, here:
http://www.nas.org/polArticles.cfm?doctype_code=Article&doc_id=1251
Further commentary here: http://nasblog.org/2010/04/07/nas-welcomes-intellectual-takeout/
*Cheers to D for taking an old argument of mine, adding some pomo cultural spin, and running with it. (As a sidenote, the next Anodyne Swift entry deals almost exclusively with the taming of UK conflict junkies at last month's European funding free-for-all.)