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  • ‘Red Dawn’: A Movie for Our Time

    ‘Red Dawn’: A Movie for Our Time0

    The other day I was revisiting the 1984 flick Red Dawn when I had one of those revelations that leave me feeling a bit stupid and more than a bit stunned.            The film’s storyline is pretty simple: It’s the Cold War, and Russia, Cuba, and Nicaragua launch an attack on

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  • ‘Race, Class, Gender’—The Left Now Only Has 2 of the 3

    ‘Race, Class, Gender’—The Left Now Only Has 2 of the 30

    “Race, class, gender.” For more than a generation now, the academic left has relied on these as hermeneutical keys for interpreting just about everything. I recall the great historian of Victorian England Gertrude Himmelfarb, speaking wryly at a 1980’s convention of the American Historical Association: “Professors might as well create a keyboard shortcut for the

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  • ‘Preaching to the Choir’: A New Theory on Why American Politics are So Polarized

    ‘Preaching to the Choir’: A New Theory on Why American Politics are So Polarized0

    There is an enormous body of research out there that explores why modern American politics are so polarized. It’s also a question many Americans are asking. (The question comes up second on Google if one types in “Why is American politics…”.) There are many good theories out there. Bill Bishop’s “big sort” hypothesis suggests Americans

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  • ‘Porn Star’: Why We Should Probably Lose the Term

    ‘Porn Star’: Why We Should Probably Lose the Term0

    A few years ago, an 18-year old Duke University student named Miriam Weeks began performing in pornographic films for $1,300 per scene to make ends meet. Today she is better known by her nom de porn: Belle Knox. The story created a national stir, especially after Weeks, who said she began shooting porn because tuition

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  • ‘Please Have Children,’ an Expert Researcher Warns

    ‘Please Have Children,’ an Expert Researcher Warns0

    An expert New Zealand researcher is warning women to “please have children” as, mirroring other Western nations, New Zealand’s fertility rate reaches an all-time low. The country’s total fertility rate is now 1.71 children per woman, well below the population replacement level of 2.1. Increasingly, greater numbers of researchers are acknowledging the grave problems associated

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  • ‘Pilpul’ describes what happened to academic writing

    ‘Pilpul’ describes what happened to academic writing0

    At one point in Chaim Potok’s classic The Chosen, David Malter—the father of the main character Reuven—discusses the decline of Jewish scholarship in the eighteenth century. In the discussion, he uses a term that accurately describes much of modern academic writing—“pilpul”: “Jewish scholarship was dead. In its place came empty discussions about matters that had no

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