Do Away With Standardized Testing?

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Randy weinegarten, the head of the american association e union of teachers, is talking about doing away with standardized testing because it's races. I'm you know, i'm so incredibly incensed that randy Weinegarten has made such a low blow to those who believe in reason and rationalism. And by the way, those are not white ideas, you know. They're just ideas that anybody can embrace. T, i know you got another interview ind a couple f minutes o, with a hang up and say good bye now. Thanks all your work. So beautiful book. What a pleasure to see you again. Ou ly appreciated.

Shermer and Murray discuss: what it takes to become a successful writer • Is this “war” on Western civilization just a necessary course correction from the sins of the past? • Is at least some of the criticisms of Western civilization a form of revenge for past wrongs? • CRT: If racism is not the explanation for the present Black/White differences in income, wealth, home ownership, and representation in professional careers, what is? • Racism and Antiracism • 1619 Project • BLM movement • White privilege • Colonialism and decolonizing cultural things • Monuments • If Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln should be cancelled, what about Marx? • Anti-Semitism • Objectivity and the search for truth: is this a Western tradition only? • Reparations: don’t we have a moral obligation to right a wrong?

Douglas Murray is an associate editor of The Spectator. His previous book, The Madness of Crowds, was a bestseller and a book of the year for The Times and The Sunday Times. His previous book, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam, was published by Bloomsbury in May 2017. It spent almost twenty weeks on the Sunday Times bestseller list and was a number one bestseller in nonfiction. His new book is The War on the West in which Murray shows how many well-meaning people have been fooled by hypocritical and inconsistent anti-West rhetoric.