The Death of Character

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On the Moral Education of America's Children

By James Davison Hunter
(Basic Books, 2001)

The Death of Character is a broad historical, sociological, and cultural inquiry into the moral life and moral education of young Americans based upon an extensive empirical study of the children themselves.

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Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so.

“Lazarus Long,” in Robert A. Heinlein’s Time Enough for Love (1973)

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