Quotes from Fred Siegel

the dole replaced the former reliance on hard work and self-betterment that had led earlier generations to improve their lot.

Academics, think-tank executives, scientists, and high-level bureaucrats, as well as well-educated managers of major companies and their technical staff, are naturally attracted to the idea of a society ruled by professional experts with "enlightened" values—that is, by people much like themselves.10 This

despite the spreading of mass education, cognitive skills now seem to be weakening. Many employers, at least in the United States, experience difficulty finding workers capable of having a serious conversation, with over sixty percent of applicants lacking basic social skills.

Until the 1960s, liberals understood themselves to be devotees of a rationality that allowed individuals to question authority on the basis of empirical and historical argumentation.

schooling meant that schools had "become, by design, institutions for the preservation of adolescence

turns out that feminists don't want equality. What they want is power and the privilege to define ambiguous situations that comes with it.