19 September 2019
Ignoring the heritability of intelligence
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Extract from a 2013 article by Ed West on the Spectator ’s website: I’m starting to get the impression that the Guardian isn’t very keen o...
01 September 2019
Æthelflæd - Lady of the Mercians
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England in 878 AD Æthelflæd, the daughter of King Alfred, was a significant figure in early British history. From the time of her husband...
24 July 2019
The Abolition of Genius
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This is a new, hardback edition of Charles McCreery’s book, The Abolition of Genius . The book contains an analysis of the relationship be...
22 July 2019
Stephen Jay Gould and
The Bell Curve
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If ability is at least partly inherited, then it is likely that social classes will arise. If social class is partly explained by genes, the...
30 June 2019
Financing special education
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From Stephen Jay Gould’s The Mismeasure of Man : The difference between strict hereditarians and their opponents is not, as some caricature...
14 June 2019
John Stuart Mill — blank-slate collectivist?
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John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) The following extract* from John Stuart Mill’s Autobiography is cited in Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate . ...
05 June 2019
You cannot serve two masters
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In the standard Gospels it is often necessary to make rather extreme substitutions for anything that makes sense to emerge. None of the Gosp...
15 May 2019
Compulsory education and Prussia - part 2
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Further to the previous post , there is another quotation from Murray Rothbard’s history of compulsory education* which makes it very clear ...
08 May 2019
Compulsory education
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Frederick William I (1688 - 1740) Compulsory education involves the transfer of the power to make decisions about a child’s education fr...
03 April 2019
Robert Nozick on ‘rights’
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Libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick on the individual’s rights versus the state’s rights: Individuals have rights, and there are things n...
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