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Martin Diamond channels Alexis de Tocqueville in raging against the grade-inflation machine back before IA, before much of the grade inflation crap</title><url>https://www.therepublicanprofessor.com/2026/04/14/250th-anniversary-of-the-usa-ep-1-dr-martin-diamond-ph-d-on-reading-in-an-empire-of-mediocrity/</url><author_name>The Republican Professor - Striving to seek the truth in all matters because truth is freedom.</author_name><author_url>https://www.therepublicanprofessor.com</author_url><thumbnail_url>https://www.therepublicanprofessor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/REPUBLICAN-PROF-logo-3000.png</thumbnail_url><html>&lt;iframe width="560px" height="140px" src="https://www.therepublicanprofessor.com/2026/04/14/250th-anniversary-of-the-usa-ep-1-dr-martin-diamond-ph-d-on-reading-in-an-empire-of-mediocrity/?standalonePlayer"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</html></oembed>
