The Burden of Bad Ideas: How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Society
Author:   Heather MacDonald
Publisher:   Ivan R Dee, Inc
ISBN:  

9781566633963


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   24 July 2001
Format:   Paperback
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The Burden of Bad Ideas: How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Society


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Author:   Heather MacDonald
Publisher:   Ivan R Dee, Inc
Imprint:   Ivan R Dee, Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.395kg
ISBN:  

9781566633963


ISBN 10:   1566633966
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   24 July 2001
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction vii Part 2 The Billions of Dollars That Made Things Worse 3 Part 3 Behind the Hundred Neediest Cases 25 Part 4 Public Health Quackery 43 Part 5 Law School Humbug 61 Part 6 Why Johnny's Teacher Can't Teach 82 Part 7 An F for Hip-Hop 101 103 Part 8 Revisionist Lust: The Smithsonian Today 117 Part 9 Homeless Advocates in Outer Space 144 Part 10 Compassion Gone Mad 155 Part 11 Welfare's Next Vietnam 173 Part 12 Foster Care's Underworld 194 Part 13 Diallo Truth, Diallo Falsehood 209 Part 14 Index 235

Reviews

Mac Donald is the indispensable journalist...if you question that characterization, you havenit read her work.--George Will


A startlingly valuable book, whether you lean left or right.--Michael Pakenham Baltimore Sun


Author Information

Heather Mac Donald, a nonpracticing lawyer, is a John M. Olin Fellow at The Manhattan Institute in New York and a contributing editor of City Journal, the quarterly magazine of urban affairs. Her first book, The Burden of Bad Ideas (also published by Ivan R. Dee), was enthusiastically praised and is now in a sixth printing. She lives and writes in New York City.

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