Academic Questions

Winter 2022

Volume 35 Issue 4

January 10, 2023

The Issue at a Glance

Carol Iannone

The issue at a glance for Winter 2022.

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January 10, 2023

Letters to the Editor

Carol Iannone

Letters to the Editor, Volume 35, Issue 4.

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January 10, 2023

Free Society or Fear Society?

Carol Iannone

Past failures do not make our culture or history inherently awful, nor does today's affluence and unpresidented equality excuse the violence or modern forms of authoritarianism.

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January 10, 2023

Four Reasons Why Heterodox Academy Failed

Nathan Cofnas

Heterodox Academy's attempts to promote heterodoxy have floundered in the seven years since its founding.

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January 10, 2023

Courts versus Campuses: The Struggle to Protect Free Speech

George R. La Noue

A review of several recent court cases reveals that the most serious threats to academic freedom may originate from within the campus community, not from outside.

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January 10, 2023

Decolonizing Science

J. Scott Turner

It is far from clear that Western science has suppressed or damaged “indigenous knowledge,” as a recent editorial in Nature suggests. But there is an important story to tell about science,......

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January 10, 2023

From Dante to Dostoevsky: The Golden Age of Christian Art (1321-1821)

Duke Pesta

The focus on sacrificial, other-centered love in the works of both authors exemplifies the profound influence of Christianity on the great Western art of the half-millennium that separates them.

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January 10, 2023

Stratification Economics: How Social Science Fails

John Staddon

In violation of the most basic tenets of social science, the proposed sub field of “Stratification Economics” seeks to limit, rather than expand, our understanding of income variation betw......

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January 10, 2023

Colonialism: Taking the Good with the Bad

P. Eric Louw

Two recent books take very different positions on decolonization: one “wallows” in today’s academically fashionable “restorative justice” ideology. The other seeks to res......

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January 10, 2023

On Buckley’s "God and Man at Yale" at Seventy

Noël Valis

A Yale professor assesses William F. Buckley’s screed against “values-neutral” education in light of the “troubling erosion of democratic principles” on today’s cam......

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January 10, 2023

Culture and Cultural Appropriation

Daniel Asia

The diffusion of art and culture across continents and oceans typically accompanies great human progress. The only “appropriation” in all of this is carried out by those who politiciz......

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January 10, 2023

Malpractice in Medical Schools

John D. Sailer

A review of "Malpractice in Medical Schools," by Stanley Goldfarb, 2022, Bombardier, pp. 216, $17.00 paperback.

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January 10, 2023

The Language Conundrum

Glynn Custred

A review of "The Language Conundrum," by Randy Allen Harris, Second Edition 2021, Oxford University Press, pp. 368, $25.99 used.

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January 10, 2023

Jazz and God

Douglas Groothuis

A review of "Jazz and God," by William Edgar, InterVarsity Press, 2022, pp. 224, $24 paperback.

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January 10, 2023

An Optimist Leads by Example

Peter Wood

A review of "An Optimist Leads by Example," by John Agresto, Encounter, 2022, pp. 256, $27.99 hardbound.

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January 10, 2023

The Religion of Narcissism

James Matthew Wilson

A review of "The Religion of Narcissism," by Ernest J. Zarra III, Rowman & Littlefield, 2021, pp. 218, $37.00 paperback.

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January 10, 2023

The Bard’s God

Gorman Beauchamp

A review of "The Bard's God," by Gideon Rappaport, One Mind Good Press, 2022, pp. 514, $32 hardbound.

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January 10, 2023

Does the West Hate Itself?

William L. Howard

A review of "Does the West Hate Itself?," by Benedict Beckeld, Northern Illinois Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2022, pp. 264, $25.80 hardcover.

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January 10, 2023

The Critical Race Speech Tribunals

Stanley K. Ridgley

A review of "It's Not Free Speech," by Michael Bérubé, Jennifer Ruth, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022, pp. 304, $29.95 hardcover.

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