{"title":"Cormac McCarthy: Conservative Novelist","authors":"A. Riley","doi":"10.51845/35.2.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51845/35.2.15","url":null,"abstract":"Where some critics see only dystopia and misanthropy in the violent novels of Cormac McCarthy, sociologist Alexander Riley notices a “distinct moral core” in McCarthy’s best-known fiction, drawing from both conservative and Christian values.","PeriodicalId":35247,"journal":{"name":"Academic Questions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49360728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What, after Speech is Free, Shall We Say?","authors":"M. Platt","doi":"10.51845/35.2.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51845/35.2.11","url":null,"abstract":"The over-specialization of academic disciplines, the decline of core curricula, deference to student sentiment, administrative overreach, and restrictions on speech have erased the university’s role in fostering the great humanistic conversations vital to self-governance.","PeriodicalId":35247,"journal":{"name":"Academic Questions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41892542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Lived Experience Fallacy","authors":"Timothy Hsiao","doi":"10.51845/35.2.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51845/35.2.7","url":null,"abstract":"Professor Timothy Hsiao has noticed a pronounced inclination among college students to accept personal experience as the basis for determining political beliefs. But personal anecdotes do not invalidate statistical generalizations. This basic rule of statistical reasoning seems to have been lost on people who should know better.","PeriodicalId":35247,"journal":{"name":"Academic Questions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48545026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critical Race Theory in Six Logical Fallacies","authors":"Douglas R. Groothuis","doi":"10.51845/35.2.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51845/35.2.6","url":null,"abstract":"Logical fallacies, according to philosopher Douglas Groothius, “are the bane of critical thinking.” Ironic, then, that Critical Race Theory is full of them.","PeriodicalId":35247,"journal":{"name":"Academic Questions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46855217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Higher Education: Some Answers to Challenges","authors":"George R. La Noue","doi":"10.51845/35.2.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51845/35.2.24","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35247,"journal":{"name":"Academic Questions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44822238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Spectacular Success Story of Sir Ernest Wallis Budge","authors":"Geoffrey Clarfield","doi":"10.51845/35.2.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51845/35.2.12","url":null,"abstract":"A pivotal figure in the field of Egyptology, Assyriology, and biblical studies, Sir Ernest Wallis Budge was an illegitimate child of the Victorian age who succeeded against the odds. Today he is castigated by archeologists anxious to distance their field from its imperialist birth.","PeriodicalId":35247,"journal":{"name":"Academic Questions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46412688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"No Midge, No NAS: A Tribute to Midge Decter","authors":"S. Balch","doi":"10.51845/35.2.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51845/35.2.18","url":null,"abstract":"Among the many intellectual luminaries who helped birth the National Association of Scholars, Midge Decter was “The One.”","PeriodicalId":35247,"journal":{"name":"Academic Questions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48528952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The issue at a glance","authors":"S. Ravindran","doi":"10.1007/s12129-999-1034-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12129-999-1034-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35247,"journal":{"name":"Academic Questions","volume":"13 1","pages":"3-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s12129-999-1034-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42494451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Issue at a Glance","authors":"S. Ravindran","doi":"10.1007/s12129-008-9058-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12129-008-9058-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35247,"journal":{"name":"Academic Questions","volume":"21 1","pages":"131-133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s12129-008-9058-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43447690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The issue at a glance","authors":"S. Ravindran","doi":"10.1007/s12129-999-1017-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12129-999-1017-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35247,"journal":{"name":"Academic Questions","volume":"12 1","pages":"3-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s12129-999-1017-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49353252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}