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Foundations of Inquiry Readings:     (logon: ids100        p***word: may142004 )

  1. Kelly Lantau, "Do you see what I see?" Daily Vidette 10/21/97, p. 4
  2. From "Monty Python's Flying Circus:The Argument Clinic
  3. Kenton Machina.  "What Is a University All About? An opinionated introduction to American higher education"

  4. Steven Goldberg, The Inevitability of Patriarchy

  5. The Wizard of OZ, excerpt 
  6. Lawrence Van Gelder, "Thomas Kuhn, 73; Devised Science Paradigm [Obituary]," The New York Times, June 19, 1996, p. B7.
  7. John Horgan, "Profile: Reluctant Revolutionary: Thomas S. Kuhn unleashed 'paradigm" on the world," Scientific American May 1991 pp. 40,49 © 1991 Scientific American   (annotated version).
  8. From: Roy Porter, "Enlightenment and Beyond," The Enlightenment, (Humanities Press International, 1990), pp. 61-3. © Roy Porter 1990
  9. From Nicolas Condorcet, Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind.
  10. Jean Jacques Rousseau.  Discourse on the Origin of Inequality among Men: (1755)(excerpt)
  11. James McPherson, "Reconstruction Reconsidered"
  12. Michael Michalko, "Cracking Creativity The Secrets of Creative Genius," (excerpts, with commentary by Angelo Capparella)
  13. Simon Singh, The Proof Is in the Neutrino New York Times June 16, 1998
  14. David Bromwich, "The Case of Literary Theory," Politics by Other Means: Higher Education and Group Thinking, (Yale University Press, 1992) pp. 185-6 © Yale University
  15. Cook's Tour Revisited, The University of Chicago Magazine April 1995 
  16. Patricia Collins, "The Eurocentric. Masculinist Knowledge Validation Process," Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment, (Urwin Hyman, 1990) pp. 203-4. © 1991 by Routledge, Chapman and Hall, Inc.
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  2. Craig Aaron, "The Willing Executioner"
    Robert Pambianco, The Guilty Are Being Executed:

  3. Nat Hentoff " The crime of hate" , The Washington Times, October 9, 2000
    Blake Cornish, NGLTF Federal Legislative Lawyer, "Hate Crimes Legislation and the First Amendment"

  4. Donald Ponder "Remarks on SB390, Hate Crimes Legislation"
    Stephen Chapman "Laws In Search of a Need
  5. Steve Duin "Kate Cheney still doesn't rest in peace"
    Bernard Cardinal Law, "Ideas Have Consequences" (assisted suicide)
  6. Bob Herbert: "In America: A Chill Grows in Brooklyn"
    Jacob Sullum "Flung Dung,"(arts censorship)

  7. Bobby Cuza "Quota System Hurts Title IX's Intentions"
    Donna A. Lopiano,  "Colleges Can Achieve Equity in Sports"

  8. Robert Jensen, "Unearned Privilege: White people need to acknowledge benefits of unearned privilege."
    Walter Williams, "Affirmative Action Can't Be Mended"

  9. James K. Glassman, "Government Money Makes Bad Art," The Washington Post. July 18, 1995
    Congressman Martin Olav Sabo, "Why America Mustn't Abolish  the National Endowment for the Arts" Minneapolis Star Tribune. September 24, 1997
  10. Howard Gardner and E.D. Hirsch Jr., Two Views on How to Get Johnny to Read and Think, New York Times, September 11, 1999
  11. Lynne Cheney Once Again, Basic Skills Fall Prey To a Fad
    Thomas Romberg  Mediocre Is Not Good Enough