Scienc's role in society

Institutions, why they matter and how science and liberalism have strengthened them

Social Sciences apalazzo | January 27, 2009

I woke up, got the paper and then read this half baked OpEd by David Brooks, the world's most confused conservative. The thesis of his article: liberalism destroys institutions. Here's the opening paragraph: A few years ago, a faculty committee at Harvard produced a report on the purpose of education. "The aim of a liberal education" the report declared, "is to unsettle presumptions, to defamiliarize the familiar, to reveal what is going on beneath and behind appearances, to disorient young people and to help them to find ways to reorient themselves." He then goes on to describe how important…