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...creationist upsurge bother him, coming as it does just as his career in evolution is flourishing? "It bothers me," he says, "but for all its latching on the rhetoric of equal time, it's basically an old-fashioned, anti-intellectual attack against toleration, and an attempt to impose dogma on the schools. The only way it hurts my career is that it takes up too much damn time--people always asking you to write articles and be on the radio and t.v., and I don't learn anything by doing that. You don't learn anything by fighting creationists...
Thomas Sowell was bound to be a favored intellectual at Ronald Reagan's White House. A prolific (eleven books) economic historian, he is an impassioned defender of conservative dogma. His own life is an advertisement for the American Dream: born poor, he dropped out of high school, attended college on the G.I. Bill, won a bachelor's degree from Harvard and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago, and went on to a distinguished teaching career. Perhaps equally attractive to the Reaganauts, Sowell is black-and claims to reflect the views of a vast, quiet black...
Only after performing that dizzying pirouette from dogma to moderation did the Communists finally get their four portfolios. By far the most important belonged to Charles Fiterman, 47, the party's second-in-command. Named Transportation Minister, he also became a Minister of State, one of the five highest ranking Cabinet officers. Other new ministers arrived at the Elysée in sleek, gray, chauffeur-driven Citroëns, but Fiterman rolled up behind the wheel of his own tiny brown Renault-with a team of TV reporters huddled in back. Interviewed after his appointment, Fiterman bristled at suggestions...
...surprising that Christian schools show impressive results. Any school with highly motivated students and 15-to-1 pupil-teacher ratios would show the same. There is no need to ascribe their success to the moralistic dogma and right-wing politics these institutions espouse...
With her usual authoritarian sweep, Author Ayn Rand strikes a basic blow for her consistent dogma of individualism. Though she is more a cult figure than a popular philosopher, her words mirror an attitude that is becoming more and more common in the U.S., particularly among public figures. Indeed, an increasing number of Americans seem to have concluded that the right to ego implies the duty to exercise it publicly. The result is something of a rout for the time-honored American taboo against tooting one's own horn. Today it is commonplace for Americans to come right...