Academic

LOSING THE WAR OF IDEAS: Jewish (and Other) Schools Shouldn?t Assign Ibram Kendi?s Stamped: A Remi?

By David Bernstein

LOSING THE WAR OF IDEAS: Jewish (and Other) Schools Shouldn?t Assign Ibram Kendi’s Stamped: A Remix. My question for our conservative intellectual establishment: Putting ideological objections to one side, Kendi’s book is replete with errors that a competent historian could likely enumerate with citations in a couple of weeks. That wouldn’t extinguish the current ardor for the book, but it could dampen it as parents would have an objective, non-ideological basis for objecting to it being assigned in public and private schools. So why hasn’t anyone solicited such a takedown? I can think of dozens of much-less-important matters that flood my in-box daily from various right-leaning groups.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on October 14, 2020 (boomark / email).