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  • Clarence Thomas Signals Willingness to Overturn Obergefell v. Hodges

    Clarence Thomas Signals Willingness to Overturn Obergefell v. Hodges0

    Much attention has been devoted to the potential role a Justice Amy Coney Barrett might play in overturning Roe v. Wade and ending the nationwide legalization of abortion. Now current Justice Clarence Thomas is also raising the possibility of overturning Obergefell v. Hodges and returning the legalization of gay marriage to the states. The Supreme Court was unanimous in its decision not to

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  • Claremont McKenna College Says Students Who Disrupted Heather Mac Donald Speech May Face Repercussions

    Claremont McKenna College Says Students Who Disrupted Heather Mac Donald Speech May Face Repercussions0

    Claremont McKenna College officials have announced possible repercussions for students who protested a conservative speaker’s speech last week. Protesters successfully blocked students and professors from entering an on-campus building to hear Heather Mac Donald’s pro-police speech, as reported by The Daily Signal last Friday. Mac Donald is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think

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  • Clare Boothe Luce: A Feminist of a Different Kind

    Clare Boothe Luce: A Feminist of a Different Kind0

    She was a playwright, war reporter, congresswoman, ambassador, political pundit and quotable wit; she made her mark in not just one but a whole constellation of professions dominated by men.  Clare Boothe Luce, born on March 10 in 1903, is a neglected figure today; but in her heyday she was a force to be reckoned

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  • Claim: Evolution Can’t Account for Man’s Speech

    Claim: Evolution Can’t Account for Man’s Speech0

    Thank God for Tom Wolfe.  He’s been coming forth with the right sort of right stuff for better than a half century, and he’s still at it. Or maybe it should be “chundering” forth. The verb of choice is Wolfe’s, who has allegedly scholarly papers chundering forth all over the place in this short book.

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  • Civilization or Barbarism? This Time the Choice Is Clear.

    Civilization or Barbarism? This Time the Choice Is Clear.7

    The attack launched by Hamas on Israel—the brutal slaughter of men, women, and children, and the degradations which followed some of those murders—sickened many of us who watched the videos and read the reports about the horrors committed by these savages. Not everyone shared our revulsion. In Tehran, mobs and politicians celebrated the atrocities with

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  • Civilization Is Permanence, Barbarism Is Instability

    Civilization Is Permanence, Barbarism Is Instability6

    In Part 1 of his 1969 documentary series on the history of Western art, Kenneth Clark defines civilization in a rather illuminating manner: Civilization means something more than energy and will and creative power, something the early Norsemen hadn’t got, but which, even in their time, was beginning to reappear in Western Europe. How can

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