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  • Univ. of Chicago Prez: Rejecting Free Speech Diminishes Education Quality

    Univ. of Chicago Prez: Rejecting Free Speech Diminishes Education Quality0

    Late last summer, the University of Chicago made waves when its Dean of Students announced to incoming freshmen that the institution would not be a purveyor of trendy safe spaces. Instead, it sought to continue its quest for “rigorous debate, discussion, and even disagreement.” Apparently, the University of Chicago is not backing down on its

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  • Univ. of Chicago Faculty Strike Back, Defend ‘Safe Spaces’

    Univ. of Chicago Faculty Strike Back, Defend ‘Safe Spaces’0

    • September 15, 2016

    In August, Intellectual Takeout obtained and published a letter University of Chicago Dean of Students John Jay Ellison sent to students explaining the university’s commitment to intellectual l freedom and inquiry. The letter, which told students not to expect safe spaces and trigger warnings, quickly went viral. This week, several University of Chicago faculty struck

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  • Univ. Announces Essay Contest on Child Welfare in Pedophile’s Honor

    Univ. Announces Essay Contest on Child Welfare in Pedophile’s Honor0

    The title of this essay offers news that is untrue. It satirizes the truth in order to make a critical point. Recently the Paterno Fellows Program announced an essay contest on ethical values, which is open to all Penn State University students. The program is named in honor of Joe Paterno, who was an English

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  • United Had a Much Better Solution than Kicking Off a Passenger

    United Had a Much Better Solution than Kicking Off a Passenger0

    Everyone by now has likely seen the video depicting a man being dragged off a plane for refusing to give up his seat on a United flight. It’s a shocking and horrifying clip—so of course it immediately went viral. The video has been viewed more than 100 million times in China alone, CNN reports.  

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  • United Airlines Was Right to Remove a Belligerent Passenger

    United Airlines Was Right to Remove a Belligerent Passenger0

    Anyone asked to leave an overbooked flight for which they purchased a ticket would be justifiably annoyed. They have somewhere they need to be, and it wasn’t their fault United Airlines screwed up. So when a passenger on United Airlines flight 3411 from Chicago to Louisville was randomly chosen to be removed, he was right

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  • Union Bosses Take Aim at Gigsters’ Jobs

    Union Bosses Take Aim at Gigsters’ Jobs0

    It is an old, old story. When you push water down into the bathtub, some of it inevitably seeps out and wets the washroom floor. In the same way, raising taxes to inordinate levels means rich people inevitably leave. The actor Gerard Depardieu moved from France to Belgium. The tennis player Bjorn Borg emigrated from

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