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Katharine Birbalsingh on Thomas Sowell and Theodore Dalrymple

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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The Young Condemned to Live in an Eternal Present

Most of the young whites whom I meet literally cannot name a single writer and certainly cannot recite a line of poetry. Daurimpil continues: As to knowledge in other spheres, it is fully up to the standards set in mathematics. One young patient who had heard of the Second World War thought it took place in the eighteenth century. To them, 1066 is more likely to mean a price and a date. So will warn us about the relaxation of standards as well as grade inflation in American schools three decades ago. And we talked about this subject at length in episodes 14, 15, and 16.

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