The Genesis of Science: How the Christian Middle Ages Launched the Scientific Revolution, by James Hannam We’ve been led to think of the Middle Ages as a period of “darkness”, intellectual stagnation, superstition, and ignorance. Forget it. This is utter myth primarily fabricated by the so-called Renaissance Scholars in what in many cases was a […]
Archives for February 2013
The Undermining of History Standards in Texas Higher Ed
(Note: A version of this essay was previously posted to www.seethruedu.com, an initiative of the Texas Public Policy Foundation focused on higher education reform. I am pleased to be a contributor to this site and I invite Pilgrim readers to visit the site for enlightened commentary on higher education issues from a number of knowledgeable […]
The Unraveling of the Social Contract
In December, the Michigan legislature passed and its Governor signed a right to work law. If there was ever a turning point in the demise of the post World War II social contract, this is certainly it. Of all places, the citadel of union strength and solidarity and the home of the United Automobile Workers […]
The Conservative Response
Arthur C. Brooks, President of the American Enterprise Institute, had the most concise response to the daunting challenge faced by conservatives in the wake of the recent re-election of President Obama: President Obama won re-election because his message of resentment against the rich for failing to pay their “fair share” resonated with millions of people […]
The Second Term
President Obama’s inaugural address was arguably the most ideological such speech in American history–a litany of progressive dreams, devoid of any recognition of the current realities, the most significant of which is the bankruptcy of the post Great Society social contract and the crisis of the entitlement state, about which more below. We’re a society […]