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...only the minor policies they advocate, but also the major ideals that they represent—or at least should represent—has real and pernicious political and social consequences. The bumper-sticker talking points of modern Republican stump issues—economic freedom, national security, family values??have, for several years now, dominated our national discourse and so demanded that any new policy justify itself in conservative terms that are inherently hostile to a robust progressive agenda...
...Peter Berkowitz was titled, and it proffered a solution to our woes.The conservative critique of liberal education is not new, but the timing was good. American conservatives, you may have noticed, don’t have much to fight for these days. Can you say “family values?? with a straight face? What about “small government”? “Compassionate conservatism”? Moving on, then. Harvard, Berkowitz goes, ought to have a mandatory, great-books-style curriculum that introduces students to Western civilization. If our kids do not learn...
...have supported Harvard’s decision. So, too, have secondary school principals and counselors, as well as other informed observers. Many hope, as we do, that this change will help restore some sanity to a process that seems more pressured—and less consonant with fundamental educational values??with each passing year...
...Christian demography. The very idea of pan-European values is questionable, but assuming that they exist—perhaps as embodied by a commitment to political, social and economic freedom achieved through liberal democracy and capitalism—it’s unclear how such “European values?? will be endangered by an Islamic minority. In a mostly non-religious Europe, the only link between the continent’s values and Christianity is its history, and this Judeo-Christian heritage won’t disappear just because of Muslim immigration. In fact, the progressive Westernization...
...College in 1991 to finish his undergraduate degree, added that “Obama’s life experience in particular equips him to understand the kinds of ways in which we need to bring a very diverse set of people and interests together around a fundamental group of values??compassion, generosity and tolerance...