The bad news came in the form of international math and science test scores for eighth-graders. American students placed in the middle rank of thirty-eight nations, showing no improvement from the same comparison in 1995 despite concerted efforts to raise the quality of science instruction. American students were surpassed not only by Asians (Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Korea)-no surprise there-but also by Slovenia, Hungary, and the Russian Federation. The study, conducted by the National Center for Educational Statistics, also reported data on what is probably a major reason for the United States's mediocre performance. More American teachers majored in education than in the subject they teach; in other countries the reverse is true.
January 2001 -- "The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else." So said John Maynard Keynes, and truly.
In Viable Values, Tara Smith sets forth an exposition of Ayn Rand's metaethical theory and defends it against competing views regarding the
October 2000 -- John L. Kelley, author of Bringing the Market Back In, is a professor of history at Shawnee State University, Portsmouth....
Those who love the Enlightenment spirit are sometimes tempted to believe that it engendered fraternity among the age's disciples. And to an
Well, the United States had begun to turn around in the summer of 1932. And that was characteristic of the entire world, not just the U.S..
The big influences on Hamilton were the economists he read and also the philosophers of natural law and English constitutional law....
February 2001 -- "There is no right to do wrong." So said Alan Keyes used to say during his presidential campaign. Apparently, he either did not grasp or did not care that freedom implies the right to do wrong, inasmuch as a person permitted no option but to walk the straight and narrow does not walk this path freely. Of course, libertarians know well the truth of that observation, but today it demands a rider: Freedom exists only when the right to do wrong is more than nominal.
February 2001 -- A nation's political trends are governed by several factors--the state of the economy, the vested interests of politicians
February 2001 -- In recent months, the Environmental Liberation Front (ELF) has claimed responsibility for acts of arson across the country
January 2001 -- With both presidential candidates advocating education plans, health-care plans, and tax-cut plans, and parading their relig
As I explained in my first article in a series for The Freeman [see Money in the 1920s and 1930s, The Freeman, April, 1999. pp. 37-42]....
The beginning of the twenty-first century is a great time for capitalism. Socialism has been discredited. Countries around the world are
A writer suffering from clinical depression finds relief from Prozac. Realizing how profoundly the drug's inventor has affected her life....
James Davison Hunter, a professor of sociology and religious studies at the University of Virginia and director of the Institute for
March 2001 -- At the June 1967 Glassboro Summit, President Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara implored Soviet premier
The science of genetics, realized through technologies such as cloning, will have a tremendous impact on cultural conceptions of human....
September 2004 -- Thomas Sydenham (1624-89) was one of London's leading physicians in the latter half of the 17th century. As a follower of Francis Bacon's philosophy, and a close friend of John Locke, Sydenham insisted on an intensely empirical approach to the treatment of disease. For the same reason, however, he remained uninterested in the great anatomical discoveries of his day—and in the bizarre physiological theories to which they gave rise—observing that to a practitioner these theories were useless or worse. Unfortunately, because of this anti-speculative outlook, Sydenham's reputation has suffered somewhat in recent years.
May 2001 -- A new school of economic thought, called "behavioral economics," is beginning to take hold in much of America's academic community. One measure of the movement's growth is a bibliography of the field by Matthew Rabin: it comprises more than two thousand "significant" articles and books. Another measure of growth is the number of behavioralists (as they are called) who have been hired by top schools, including the University of Chicago, Yale, Harvard, M.I. T., Stanford, and the University of California-Berkeley.
Navigator: What do you think of Ayn Rand 's aesthetic theories and judgments.
The bad news came in the form of international math and science test scores for eighth-graders. American students placed in the middle rank of thirty-eight nations, showing no improvement from the same comparison in 1995 despite concerted efforts to raise the quality of science instruction. American students were surpassed not only by Asians (Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Korea)-no surprise there-but also by Slovenia, Hungary, and the Russian Federation. The study, conducted by the National Center for Educational Statistics, also reported data on what is probably a major reason for the United States's mediocre performance. More American teachers majored in education than in the subject they teach; in other countries the reverse is true.
January 2001 -- "The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else." So said John Maynard Keynes, and truly.
In Viable Values, Tara Smith sets forth an exposition of Ayn Rand's metaethical theory and defends it against competing views regarding the
October 2000 -- John L. Kelley, author of Bringing the Market Back In, is a professor of history at Shawnee State University, Portsmouth....
Those who love the Enlightenment spirit are sometimes tempted to believe that it engendered fraternity among the age's disciples. And to an
Well, the United States had begun to turn around in the summer of 1932. And that was characteristic of the entire world, not just the U.S..
The big influences on Hamilton were the economists he read and also the philosophers of natural law and English constitutional law....
February 2001 -- "There is no right to do wrong." So said Alan Keyes used to say during his presidential campaign. Apparently, he either did not grasp or did not care that freedom implies the right to do wrong, inasmuch as a person permitted no option but to walk the straight and narrow does not walk this path freely. Of course, libertarians know well the truth of that observation, but today it demands a rider: Freedom exists only when the right to do wrong is more than nominal.
February 2001 -- A nation's political trends are governed by several factors--the state of the economy, the vested interests of politicians
February 2001 -- In recent months, the Environmental Liberation Front (ELF) has claimed responsibility for acts of arson across the country
January 2001 -- With both presidential candidates advocating education plans, health-care plans, and tax-cut plans, and parading their relig
As I explained in my first article in a series for The Freeman [see Money in the 1920s and 1930s, The Freeman, April, 1999. pp. 37-42]....
The beginning of the twenty-first century is a great time for capitalism. Socialism has been discredited. Countries around the world are
A writer suffering from clinical depression finds relief from Prozac. Realizing how profoundly the drug's inventor has affected her life....
James Davison Hunter, a professor of sociology and religious studies at the University of Virginia and director of the Institute for
March 2001 -- At the June 1967 Glassboro Summit, President Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara implored Soviet premier
The science of genetics, realized through technologies such as cloning, will have a tremendous impact on cultural conceptions of human....
September 2004 -- Thomas Sydenham (1624-89) was one of London's leading physicians in the latter half of the 17th century. As a follower of Francis Bacon's philosophy, and a close friend of John Locke, Sydenham insisted on an intensely empirical approach to the treatment of disease. For the same reason, however, he remained uninterested in the great anatomical discoveries of his day—and in the bizarre physiological theories to which they gave rise—observing that to a practitioner these theories were useless or worse. Unfortunately, because of this anti-speculative outlook, Sydenham's reputation has suffered somewhat in recent years.
May 2001 -- A new school of economic thought, called "behavioral economics," is beginning to take hold in much of America's academic community. One measure of the movement's growth is a bibliography of the field by Matthew Rabin: it comprises more than two thousand "significant" articles and books. Another measure of growth is the number of behavioralists (as they are called) who have been hired by top schools, including the University of Chicago, Yale, Harvard, M.I. T., Stanford, and the University of California-Berkeley.
Navigator: What do you think of Ayn Rand 's aesthetic theories and judgments.