Reclaiming Traditional Education

Why we should study old books and beautiful things

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John Stuart Mill described conservatives “as being by a law of their existence the stupidest party.” The present candidates for the GOP nomination seem determined to prove him right.

Marco Rubio took his shot at proving the Mill theorem during the fourth Republican-primary debate. Responding to a question about the minimum wage, he asserted: “Welders make more money than philosophers. We need more welders and less philosophers.”

Samuel Goldman

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Samuel Goldman

Samuel Goldman is an associate professor of political science at George Washington University.

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