Here is Homans for yesterday. I’m home nursing a mild but stubborn cold. Can’t deliver my speech at Toastmasters.
I like to take advantage of such down time to read. Just finished “Americas Cultural Revolution” by Chris Rufo. A good history, but it suffers from the same flaws as The War on Whites. Even conservatives, if they want to be widely read, have to pussyfoot around the truth. I have to as well, as you will notice if you contrast the above with my review on Amazon. More to come.
Paulo Friere is one of the four personalities to whom Rufo assigns most of the credit/blame for the cultural revolution. He was a favorite of Steve Klees, one of my profs at the University of Maryland. Klees was a champion of the Movemiento dem Terra, the landless rural people of Brazil. His indoctrination prepared me for seeing them first hand on my way to the Kayapo in 2004.
Though our viewpoints were polar opposites, and my fellow students in his class certainly did not, he treated me with respect. More or less like a laboratory specimen form a bygone ere, an anthropological curiosity. Now emeritus, he has a book out, “The Conscience of a Progressive.” It is at the top of my list.
Graham