Income inequality: Conservative arguments

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/what-if-were-looking-at-inequality-the-wrong-way/?hp&_r=0

Richard V. Burkhauser, a professor of public policy at Cornell and an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is fast becoming a champion of the right, challenging the conventional wisdom about income inequality.

On that score, Burkhauser’s use of “yearly accrued capital gains” fails the test of measuring what is most significant to know in policy making and in assessing the true quality of life in America.

"The Marketplace of Ideas" by Louis Menand

"What the humanities experienced between 1970-1990 was the intellectual and institutional equivalent of a revolution. Despite what some critics claimed, the humanities did not make themselves irrelevant by this transformation.  On the contrary: the humanities helped to make the rest of the academic world alive to issues surrounding objectivity and interpretation, and to the significance of racial and gender difference." 91"

"If one part of the university is (along with its many other projects) continually enacting a "crisis of institutional legitimation," it is performing a service for the rest of the university. And it is not just asking questions about knowledge; it is creating knowledge by asking the questions." Skepticism about the forms of knowledge is itself a form of knowledge. 92

http://www.amazon.com/The-Marketplace-Ideas-Resistance-University/dp/0393339165