By Dominic Lynch - Loyola University Chicago on July 4, 2014
Today
marks America’s 238th birthday. From our founding to the present the United
States has been a global force for good. Since the Second World War,
especially, the dominance of the United States has helped lift more people out
of poverty and has instilled more democracies around the world than at any
other point in history. We are the “indispensable nation,”…..why do some
liberal academics want to dilute the importance, significance, and
exceptionalism of the American experiment?.....
Aside
from the anti-American rhetoric often promulgated by professors, today I speak
to the notion of “global citizenship” that has become popular on campuses
across the country….. nearly 30 of the nation’s top-ranked
liberal arts colleges do not require students take a survey course in U.S.
history……The University of North Carolina, for instance, requires only one
history course, a mandate that can be met by taking such esoteric classes as
“Courts and Courtly Culture in 16th and 17th Century Spain” and “Shalom Y’all:
The Jewish Experience in the American South.”…..a 2013 survey……found
that the subject of capitalism, America’s free market system, is often either
maligned, ignored, or taught from a perspective other than objective economics.
It’s not uncommon for professors to tout the alleged blessings of Marxism while
giving short shrift to capitalism, epitomizing the notions of global
citizenship.......To Read More…..
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