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Dangerous Thoughts: Provocative Writings on Contemporary Issues
Dangerous Thoughts: Provocative Writings on Contemporary Issues
Dangerous Thoughts: Provocative Writings on Contemporary Issues
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Dangerous Thoughts is a collection of Gary Jason’s most popular and provocative articles from newspapers and political magazines, nearly three hundred in all. A few of these were published as far back as the later 1970s, but most of them are of recent vintage. There are eight broad topics the articles cover, and are gathered together in chapters accordingly. The first is school reform, and the critical need for school choice. The second is environmentalism and its negative impact on rational energy policy. The third is demographic change the continuing need for immigrants (legal, and within reasonable limits). The fourth centers around the continuing need for free trade. The fifth is the need for entitlement program reform. The sixth is the need for various political reforms, and the seventh various economic ones. The eighth is the divide between intellectual elites and ordinary citizens. A final chapter includes various miscellaneous pieces.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherXlibris US
Release dateNov 16, 2011
ISBN9781465369420
Dangerous Thoughts: Provocative Writings on Contemporary Issues
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Gary Jason

Gary Jason was born in Pittsburgh, PA and grew up in Los Angeles, CA. He attended UCLA as undergraduate, earning Bachelor’s degrees in both Physics and Philosophy. He then attended the University of Illinois, where he earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy, with an emphasis in the History and Philosophy of Science. He subsequently earned an M.S. degree in Computer Science from Kansas State University. Jason has taught Philosophy for over thirty years, and is currently an adjunct Philosophy professor at California State University, Fullerton, where he teaches critical thinking, logic and business ethics. He is also the owner of a telecom agency, Global Access Telecom. He is the author of several books, including Critical Thinking: Developing and Effective Worldview, Introduction to Logic, and The Logic of Discovery. He has also published roughly six hundred academic and trade articles, book reviews, movie reviews, and opinion editorials.

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