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  • Duking It Out in Virginia

    Duking It Out in Virginia0

    Virginia has a long history as a battleground. In 1781 British General Cornwallis surrendered to a combined force of French and American troops at Yorktown, Virginia, effectively bringing an end to the Revolutionary War.            During the Civil War, Union and Confederate forces fought each other all over the state. You

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  • Duke Professor’s 1991 Warning about Campus Chaos is Oddly Prophetic

    Duke Professor’s 1991 Warning about Campus Chaos is Oddly Prophetic0

    If one was to judge solely from headlines, it would appear that the only activities occurring on university campuses these days are riots and outrage. As professor Jonathan Haidt notes, it’s as if the university is possessed of a “tribal mind” which views “the demonization of inconvenient research and researchers” as its chief end. Haidt’s

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  • Duke Prof: Diversity and Inclusion Offices ‘Should Not Exist’ at Universities

    Duke Prof: Diversity and Inclusion Offices ‘Should Not Exist’ at Universities0

    “‘Diversity and inclusion’ is the moral benchmark of our time…Every corporation, college, and government agency, along with a growing number of bowling leagues and bait-and-tackle shops, has an Office of Diversity and Inclusion.” So says William Voegeli in a recent article. And so says the University of California at Los Angeles, whose campus-wide Vice Chancellor for

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  • Duke Divinity State of the School Address Interrupted by Rapping LGBTQ Students Who Issue 15 Demands: ‘I am Somebody, and I Won’t Be Stopped by Nobody’

    Duke Divinity State of the School Address Interrupted by Rapping LGBTQ Students Who Issue 15 Demands: ‘I am Somebody, and I Won’t Be Stopped by Nobody’0

    The chickens have come home to roost at Duke’s Divinity School. Protesting students claim the school is insufficiently diverse. More needs to be done, they say, to combat racism, transphobia, homophobia, and associated evils. All this despite a campaign by the administration to achieve these very aims in the course of which a distinguished faculty

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  • Dueling: Time to bring it back?

    Dueling: Time to bring it back?0

    Let’s be honest, we live in an honor-less age; lies and gossip aren’t just the tools of politicians and celebrities. In your own life, you can probably point to any number of people around you — even church people! — whose main trade seems to be trashing others so that they can get ahead or just

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  • Duchess Kate’s Advice for Raising Happy Kids

    Duchess Kate’s Advice for Raising Happy Kids0

    The Duchess of Cambridge, aka Kate Middleton, has spoken publicly for the first time about her experiences of motherhood – and she’s remarkably down to earth. Kate’s comments on parenting were made in the context of a longer interview about early childhood development with the “Happy Mum, Happy Baby” podcast. While a podcast is a modern

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