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While less than half of NC students are proficient in reading, math, and science, Wake Co. focuses on unjust goal of "equity"
Published: Thursday, October 20th, 2022 @ 12:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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How do we teach students how to think rather than what to think?
Published: Monday, December 27th, 2021 @ 9:19 am
By: Daily Wire
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The institution 'is and always has been incredibly important to both individual and societal health,' noted evangelical leader Dr. Richard Land about a new study
Published: Monday, October 28th, 2019 @ 1:53 pm
By: LifeZette
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Who would have thought a call to act like a gentleman would generate controversy? Context is important.
Published: Friday, January 25th, 2019 @ 1:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Election Day reminds us about deep political divisions. A high-profile diplomat's recent speech in Durham should remind us to place our political disagreements in the proper perspective
Published: Tuesday, May 8th, 2018 @ 10:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a News & Observer article last week, a faculty member expressed concerns about UNC-Chapel Hill being “overwhelmingly liberal.”
Published: Sunday, May 6th, 2018 @ 2:10 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The primary benefit of the University of North Carolina system's new free-speech policy will be to protect the freedom of professors, students, and other North Carolinians to listen to whatever speakers they wish to hear without having their rights trampled by violent or abusive protestors
Published: Monday, January 8th, 2018 @ 1:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Modern American conservatism weaves several strands of thought - constitutionally limited government, free-market economics, time-honored virtues, and prudent statesmanship - into a fabric that is both large enough to encompass a majority coalition and strong enough to withstand
Published: Tuesday, February 28th, 2017 @ 9:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It has been suggested that the expansion of free market think tanks on our college campuses is educationally harmful.
Published: Tuesday, December 20th, 2016 @ 7:12 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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When Bernie Sanders proposed free tuition at public colleges and universities, Hillary Clinton responded with her rival plan, The New College Compact
Published: Thursday, June 23rd, 2016 @ 1:50 am
By: John William Pope Center
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A few weeks ago I went camping with some fellow members of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Young Americans for Liberty chapter
Published: Tuesday, June 21st, 2016 @ 12:39 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The topsy-turvy campaign of 2016 is going to do wonders for many journalists, political practitioners, and scholars
Published: Wednesday, March 9th, 2016 @ 9:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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West Liberty University (WLU) is the oldest college in West Virginia's state supported higher ed system. I have taught there since 2007 and was promoted to full professor last year
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 6:13 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The recent movie "Best of Enemies" revisits 1968, one of the most dramatic years in modern American history
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 3:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The cliché is that conservatives are stuck in the past, but the truth is that our ideas provide the best way to move into an increasingly turbulent future.
Published: Monday, June 15th, 2015 @ 3:40 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Conservatives have spent much time in recent years talking about repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare. Avik Roy, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and opinion editor at Forbes, has a different idea. Roy issued a report in 2014 titled...
Published: Thursday, March 19th, 2015 @ 11:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A few days a week, I ride a Triangle Transit 301 bus to and from the palatial Civitas HQ in the Warehouse District of Raleigh. But even as a transit rider, my blood runs cold when I hear government planners are plotting ways to bring throw taxpayers' money at light-rail systems and commuter rail...
Published: Wednesday, February 11th, 2015 @ 1:47 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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European civilization collapsed in the centuries following the fall of Rome. Barbarian hordes overran much of the continent. The vibrant intellectual life of Greece and Rome was no more; learning and literacy plummeted between the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas.
Published: Thursday, January 29th, 2015 @ 8:34 am
By: John William Pope Center
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During a recent 24-hour period, the state of North Carolina, invoking the infinite wisdom of politicians and bureaucrats, announced plans to subsidize investments of several favored biotech and pharmaceutical firms while at the same time denying the right of a Wilmington clinic to....
Published: Tuesday, December 16th, 2014 @ 8:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If your goal is to foster economic growth and job creation, there's a right way and a wrong way to cut taxes on business. Fortunately, Pat McCrory and the General Assembly made the right choice.
Published: Tuesday, September 10th, 2013 @ 9:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 1948, the University of Chicago Press published one of the foundational texts of the modern conservative movement: Ideas Have Consequences.
Published: Thursday, January 24th, 2013 @ 6:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Nearly 70 years have passed since economist F.A. Hayek warned the Western world in his book The Road to Serfdom about the dangers of moving toward bigger, more intrusive government.
Published: Tuesday, June 12th, 2012 @ 1:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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