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The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream
by Richard Alba
Dangerously Divided: How Race and Class Shape Winning and Losing in American⨠Politics
by Zoltan L. Hajnal
The Case for Identity Politics: Polarization, Demographic Change, and Racial Appeals
by Christopher T. Stout
University of Virginia Press, 2020, 268 pp.
In a commencement address at the University of California, San Diego in 1997, President Bill Clinton spoke of a time when white people would no longer constitute a majority in the United States. In the decades since, the idea that growing diversity will bring about a âmajority-minorityâ America in the near future has become a widespread belief across the ideological spectrum, propelled by periodic Census updates, like a report that 2013 marked the first year that more nonwhite babies had been born in the United States than white ones.
Education Next
Jonathan Marks urges a recommitment to reason
by Jonathan Marks
As reviewed by J. Grant Addison
In
Let’s Be Reasonable, Jonathan Marks argues that higher education should rededicate itself to the project of liberal education. Taking his cue from John Locke, Marks describes the aim of liberal education as creating a certain type of person: that is, a reasonable one. “Reason,” as opposed to syllogism or simple debate, is both a habit of mind and a standard to hold while pursuing truth. “Our way of talking captures the sense, still alive in us despite the resolute unseriousness of public speech, that reason is not only an authority but also the kind of authority that is an honor to obey and a disgrace to betray, the sense that there’s such a thing as conduct unbecoming a reasoner,” he writes. Through study of great books and guided engagement with an academic community, liberal education seeks to “answer the question of what we are and what the bes
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