How Long to Read The Burden of Bad Ideas

How Long Does it Take to Read The Burden of Bad Ideas?

It takes the average reader to read The Burden of Bad Ideas by Heather Mac Donald

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Description

Critics have attacked the foolishness of some of today's elite thought from many angles, but few have examined the real-world consequences of those ideas. In The Burden of Bad Ideas, Heather Mac Donald reports on their disastrous effects throughout our society. At a Brooklyn high school, students perfect their graffiti skills for academic credit. An Ivy League law professor urges blacks to steal from their employers. Washington bureaucrats regard theft by drug addicts as evidence of disability, thereby justifying benefits. Public health officials argue that racism and sexism cause women to get AIDS. America's premier monument to knowledge, the Smithsonian Institution, portrays science as white man's religion. Such absurdities, Ms. Mac Donald argues, grow out of a powerful set of ideas that have governed our public policy for decades, the product of university faculties and a professional elite who are convinced that America is a deeply unjust society. And while these beliefs have damaged the nation as a whole, she observes, they have hit the poor especially hard. Her reports trace the transformation of influential opinion-makers (such as the New York Times) and large philanthropic foundations from confident advocates of individual responsibility, opportunity, and learning into apologists for the welfare state. In a series of closely reported stories from the streets of New York to the seats of intellectual power, The Burden of Bad Ideas reveals an upside-down world and how it got that way.

How long is The Burden of Bad Ideas?

The Burden of Bad Ideas by Heather Mac Donald is 0 pages long, and a total of 0 words.

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How Long Does it Take to Read The Burden of Bad Ideas Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes to read The Burden of Bad Ideas aloud.

What Reading Level is The Burden of Bad Ideas?

The Burden of Bad Ideas is suitable for students ages 2 and up.

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