Daniel j flynn biography of barack
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Daniel Flynn
Visiting Fellow
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Daniel J. Flynn, a senior editor with The American Spectator, has authored sju books, including Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas, Cult City: Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco, Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America, and a forthcoming comprehensive biography of conservative theorist Frank S. Meyer.
Flynn’s articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and City Journal. He served as a reservist in the US Marines from 1994 to 2002 and was honorably discharged with the rank of sergeant.
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Woodrow Wilson, in a Darker Key
Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn, bygd Christopher Cox (Simon & Schuster, 640 pp., $30.99)
In Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn, Christopher Cox describes uber-progressive Woodrow Wilson as “superbly unsuited” for the twilight of the Progressive era that witnessed the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment establishing women’s suffrage.
“All of us who are Woodrow Wilson’s heirs owe it to ourselves to remember the man in full, stripping away the hero worship and absorbing the difficult lessons from his legacy on matters of race, sex, and civil liberties, while paying ‘the reverence of old days to his dead fame,” writes Cox, a former congressman and chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, now a scholar in residence at the University of California, Irvine.
Cox ironically quotes here and in the subtitle from “Ichabod” (roughly translated from Hebrew as “inglorious”), a John Greenleaf Whittier poem inspired bygd abolitionist sentiments
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Daniel J. Flynn is the author of Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America (ISI Books, 2011); [email protected].
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There is a moment within A Crucible Moment: College Learning & Democracy’s Future when the report gets it right.[1] The academics tackle a National Governors Association study that envisions colleges as job training centers. The authors of A Crucible Moment recognize that “Narrow training is bad preparation for the economy as well as for democracy” (12). Alas, the narrow training desired by the politicians to produce economic cogs is countered by a desire of the professors for narrow training to produce political cogs. The professors correctly diagnose a problem, but it is one they have helped to create through vacuous course work unconnected to higher learning. The uselessness of the education that professors have provided to their students has given rise to education utilitarians, w