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Conservatives don't always engage with the broader culture. We're going to change that.
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Conservatives don't always engage with the broader culture. We're going to change that.
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Equity has replaced excellence, and Americans are worse off physically and intellectually.
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Equity has replaced excellence, and Americans are worse off physically and intellectually.
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We remember Martin Luther King Jr. and his contributions to the Civil Rights movement today.
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We remember Martin Luther King Jr. and his contributions to the Civil Rights movement today.
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From a Birmingham jail, where he was arrested for trying to help blacks exercise their right to vote, MLK wrote: "Remember, everything that Hitler did was legal."
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From a Birmingham jail, where he was arrested for trying to help blacks exercise their right to vote, MLK wrote: "Remember, everything that Hitler did was legal."
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Universities could go the way of the Roman Empire. But they don’t have to.
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Universities could go the way of the Roman Empire. But they don’t have to.
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Plato's "The Cave" seems applicable here
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Plato's "The Cave" seems applicable here
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The Chronicle of Higher Education has just published the latest assault on academic standards, Jordynn Jack and Viji Sathy’s “It’s Time to Cancel the Word ‘Rigor’.” Jack teaches rhetoric and comparative literature, Sathy psychology and neuroscience; both teach at the University of North Carolina
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The Chronicle of Higher Education has just published the latest assault on academic standards, Jordynn Jack and Viji Sathy’s “It’s Time to Cancel the Word ‘Rigor’.” Jack teaches rhetoric and comparative literature, Sathy psychology and neuroscience; both teach at the University of North Carolina
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In his April piece for the Martin Center, Adam Ellwanger critiqued “contract grading” as a symptom of “the war against academic excellence” and the broader societal movement toward “some fetishized notion of social justice.”
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In his April piece for the Martin Center, Adam Ellwanger critiqued “contract grading” as a symptom of “the war against academic excellence” and the broader societal movement toward “some fetishized notion of social justice.”
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Tennessee GOP Governor Bill Lee is fighting back against the rampant leftism purveyed in the educational community across the country by inviting famed conservative institution Hillsdale College
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Tennessee GOP Governor Bill Lee is fighting back against the rampant leftism purveyed in the educational community across the country by inviting famed conservative institution Hillsdale College
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In 1985, Roosevelt Montás arrived in the United States aged twelve, speaking no English, accustomed to life in a rural mountain village of the Dominican Republic where he had passed his boyhood—a village with one shared telephone.
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In 1985, Roosevelt Montás arrived in the United States aged twelve, speaking no English, accustomed to life in a rural mountain village of the Dominican Republic where he had passed his boyhood—a village with one shared telephone.
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Section 1 of Charter ‘Illegally’ used by Governments
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Section 1 of Charter ‘Illegally’ used by Governments
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Two thousand twenty-one was a hard year for colleges: admissions are down, revenues are diminished, and four-year degree alternatives are achieving greater market recognition.
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Two thousand twenty-one was a hard year for colleges: admissions are down, revenues are diminished, and four-year degree alternatives are achieving greater market recognition.
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A leftist California politico who serves as co-president of the Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy mocked Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s statements on abortion by stating the concept of “equity” demands parents give up their children to the state.
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A leftist California politico who serves as co-president of the Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy mocked Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s statements on abortion by stating the concept of “equity” demands parents give up their children to the state.
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Universities are suffering an identity crisis. They don’t know what they are or what they are for. Nearly forty years ago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn proclaimed, “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this happened.”
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Universities are suffering an identity crisis. They don’t know what they are or what they are for. Nearly forty years ago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn proclaimed, “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this happened.”
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Supply chain being used for control?
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Supply chain being used for control?
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It is hard to fathom the extent to which American colleges and universities have been taken over by Critical Theory
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It is hard to fathom the extent to which American colleges and universities have been taken over by Critical Theory
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What is the value of a liberal arts education?
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What is the value of a liberal arts education?
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People that work at universities and newspapers should be the most intellectually free people in the world.
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People that work at universities and newspapers should be the most intellectually free people in the world.
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Judicial Watch announced that it has asked the Montgomery County, Maryland Circuit Court to order the release of all body camera footage from the fatal shooting of Duncan Socrates Lemp earlier this year.
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Judicial Watch announced that it has asked the Montgomery County, Maryland Circuit Court to order the release of all body camera footage from the fatal shooting of Duncan Socrates Lemp earlier this year.
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Judicial Watch filed a Public Information Act (PIA) lawsuit against the Montgomery County, MD, Police Department (MCPD) seeking all body-cam videos from the fatal shooting of Duncan Socrates Lemp.
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Judicial Watch filed a Public Information Act (PIA) lawsuit against the Montgomery County, MD, Police Department (MCPD) seeking all body-cam videos from the fatal shooting of Duncan Socrates Lemp.
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When political disagreement breaks down to demonizing one’s ideological opponents, something clearly has gone amiss.
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When political disagreement breaks down to demonizing one’s ideological opponents, something clearly has gone amiss.
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Classical education—a tradition of education with ancient roots—is becoming an increasingly popular alternative to the current K-12 public education model.
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Classical education—a tradition of education with ancient roots—is becoming an increasingly popular alternative to the current K-12 public education model.
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What does it mean to be free? Many seemingly intractable disputes about specific issues — ranging from welfare spending and school choice to abortion and alcohol policy — originate from the fact that people don’t answer this question in the same way.
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What does it mean to be free? Many seemingly intractable disputes about specific issues — ranging from welfare spending and school choice to abortion and alcohol policy — originate from the fact that people don’t answer this question in the same way.
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People who analyze and write about higher education generally fall into two camps...
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People who analyze and write about higher education generally fall into two camps...
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About a year ago, Princeton philosopher Robert P. George came to Chapel Hill, North Carolina to speak about civil discourse and diversity of thought with the UNC system Board of Governors.
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About a year ago, Princeton philosopher Robert P. George came to Chapel Hill, North Carolina to speak about civil discourse and diversity of thought with the UNC system Board of Governors.
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Wars are rarely kind to the wide-ranging pursuit of the truth. The same goes for culture wars, including the war over fraternities.
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Wars are rarely kind to the wide-ranging pursuit of the truth. The same goes for culture wars, including the war over fraternities.
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Our topic today is the importance of intellectual diversity on campus. I doubt there is anyone here who does not believe in the importance of intellectual diversity on campus, so I would like to approach the topic somewhat indirectly
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Our topic today is the importance of intellectual diversity on campus. I doubt there is anyone here who does not believe in the importance of intellectual diversity on campus, so I would like to approach the topic somewhat indirectly
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We engineers like to solve technical problems. That's the way we think, that's why we chose our major, that's why we got into and stayed in engineering
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We engineers like to solve technical problems. That's the way we think, that's why we chose our major, that's why we got into and stayed in engineering
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Law school faculties hold a sacred trust. We guard the outermost portals into the legal profession, a group that wields powers to shape society in profound and lasting ways
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Law school faculties hold a sacred trust. We guard the outermost portals into the legal profession, a group that wields powers to shape society in profound and lasting ways
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This same commentary could be written about any other nationality...Or could it?
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This same commentary could be written about any other nationality...Or could it?
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As I have previously reported, last May US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I) proposed subjecting people who make politically incorrect statements about climate change to criminal investigation, and in September a group of respected academics went on the record endorsing that outrageous idea...
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As I have previously reported, last May US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I) proposed subjecting people who make politically incorrect statements about climate change to criminal investigation, and in September a group of respected academics went on the record endorsing that outrageous idea...
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In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for a telephone. The first long distance coast-to-coast telephone call was placed in 1915-exactly a century ago.
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In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for a telephone. The first long distance coast-to-coast telephone call was placed in 1915-exactly a century ago.
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As I am sure you know, Carolina Journal is the monthly newspaper of the John Locke Foundation. Formed in 1990, the organization is named after the great English political philosopher who penned the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina in 1669 and the English Bill of Rights 20 years later.
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As I am sure you know, Carolina Journal is the monthly newspaper of the John Locke Foundation. Formed in 1990, the organization is named after the great English political philosopher who penned the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina in 1669 and the English Bill of Rights 20 years later.
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Winston Churchill famously quipped that democracy is the worst of governmental systems-except for all the others that have been tried. I'm inclined to think much the same can be said about the "publish or perish" system for choosing college faculty.
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Winston Churchill famously quipped that democracy is the worst of governmental systems-except for all the others that have been tried. I'm inclined to think much the same can be said about the "publish or perish" system for choosing college faculty.