Well, it’s the 11th day of Christmas by my medieval calendar, so I can get in another two posts on this before Christmas officially ends. And, purely by coincidence, it’s more medieval Christmas music, but from countries other than Germany. Actually, there are only a couple of them—France, Italy, the low countries, England—that’s pretty much […]
Christmas music (20)–Best other Medieval Christmas albums
by wufnik on January 4, 2010 in Arts & Literature, Music & Popular Culture
Democracy & Elitism 4: equality, opportunity and leveling up the playing field
by Samuel Smith on January 4, 2010 in American Culture, Education, Politics, Law & Government, United States
Pulitzer- and Emmy-winner William Henry‘s famous polemic, In Defense of Elitism (1994), argues that societies can be ranked along a spectrum with “egalitarianism” on one end and “elitism” on the other. He concludes that America, to its detriment, has slid too far in the direction of egalitarianism, and in the process that it has abandoned […]

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