{"id":1220,"date":"2020-07-30T01:15:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T01:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2020-07-30T01:15:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T01:15:07","slug":"college-courses-of-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/college-courses-of-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"College Courses of Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 29, 2020, Professor<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McCormickProf\/status\/1288521953138159618\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> Robert George asks on Twitter: <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Name a teacher from your undergraduate days who discouraged you from falling into groupthink; unsettled your mind; broadened your outlook; introduced you to new ideas &#038; taught you to reflect more deeply, critically, and independently.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll start:  James Kurth, Swarthmore Coll\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My reply: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nGood question. Paul Rahe-Yale Greek historian (now Hillsdale). Lloyd Reynolds&#8211;econ, near retirement, had us read 8 great economists. But maybe nobody else, despite some good teachers&#8211;Spence, Scarf, Kagan, Rapacynzksi, Roemer, Giamatti, Pelikan,&#8230; they didn&#8217;t do that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 29, 2020, Professor Robert George asks on Twitter: Name a teacher from your undergraduate days who discouraged you from falling into groupthink; unsettled your mind; broadened your outlook; introduced you to new ideas &#038; taught you to reflect more deeply, critically, and independently. I&#8217;ll start: James Kurth, Swarthmore Coll My reply: Good question. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221,"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}