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  • ‘This is What Police States Do’

    ‘This is What Police States Do’0

    “This is what police states do.” These words come from Bloomberg columnist Eli Lake, speaking of government spies selectively disseminating private conversations recorded by the NSA and FBI. Lake, a former senior security writer for the Daily Beast, was writing on what he called “the political assassination” of Michael Flynn, the man who now has

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  • ‘This is Library!’: Watch a student trying to study rudely interrupt a mob of protestors

    ‘This is Library!’: Watch a student trying to study rudely interrupt a mob of protestors0

    Millennials have a reputation for loving protests, demanding safe spaces, and seeking social justice during their college years. Often it seems that these items take priority over the reason they are supposed to be attending college, namely, to study and grow in knowledge. The good news, however, is that there are still some in the

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  • ‘They Ain’t A-Gonna Stop’

    ‘They Ain’t A-Gonna Stop’0

    Long ago I read in some biography or study of William Faulkner that he and a friend were driving down a country road at night during a driving rain storm. Suddenly the car plunged into a flooded pond. After the two men waded to shore, his friend asked, “Bill, right before we hit the water,

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  • ‘The Resistance’ to Trump Fails a Basic Test of Courage

    ‘The Resistance’ to Trump Fails a Basic Test of Courage0

    What were the editors of the New York Times smoking when they decided to publish an op-ed by an anonymous official in the Trump Administration? “I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations,” he wrote. He and his buddies are “the Resistance” – secret

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  • ‘The Red Pill’ is a Film Feminists Find Hard to Swallow

    ‘The Red Pill’ is a Film Feminists Find Hard to Swallow0

    Intellectual humility—the acknowledgement that the truth is more important than your version of it—requires you to be open-minded enough not only to listen to an opposing viewpoint but to be willing to change yours when you are wrong. It is a quality in short supply and sadly undervalued in our age of arrogance. Filmmaker and

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  • ‘The New York Times,’ the 1619 Project, and ‘Quid Est Veritas’?

    ‘The New York Times,’ the 1619 Project, and ‘Quid Est Veritas’?4

    Many of us have heard of the 1619 Project and its attempt to reinvent American history. 1619, according to The New York Times writers, is the year that the first slaves arrived on American soil. And since, according to the 1619 Project, unjust slave labor initiated and sustained the socioeconomic structure of America, 1619 is

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