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  • Will Harvard’s Head Hang On?

    Will Harvard’s Head Hang On?0

    Last week, Intellectual Takeout reported on the jaw-dropping Capitol Hill testimony of MIT President Sally Kornbluth, UPenn President Liz Magill, and Harvard President Claudine Gay. In turn, each leader affirmed—bizarrely—that calls for genocide against Jews did not violate their schools’ harassment policies unless those calls were severe, directed at individuals, or crossed over into conduct.

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  • Will Germany be Muslim in a generation?

    Will Germany be Muslim in a generation?0

    In The European, German Adorjan Kovacs makes the argument that based on demographics, the primarily Muslim migrants from the Middle East and North African will actually become the dominant population group within a generation. The Google translate of the article is a little bit rough, but his key point is that while there are 80

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  • Will Economics Fall to Political Correctness?

    Will Economics Fall to Political Correctness?0

    The intense pressure to politicize every aspect of academia will not spare economics, and why would it? A society willing to topple statues is hardly one to worry about pulling down a body of knowledge, especially one skillfully characterized by the Left as a political program rather than an actual social science. Keep in mind

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  • Will Durant on How the Socialism of Imperial Rome Ushered in Feudalism

    Will Durant on How the Socialism of Imperial Rome Ushered in Feudalism0

    In years of peace, Diocletian, with his aides, faced the problems of economic decay. To overcome depression and prevent revolution, he substituted a managed economy for the law of supply and demand. He established a sound currency by guaranteeing to the gold coinage a fixed weight and purity which it retained in the Eastern Empire till

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  • Will Downton Abbey’s Gender Problem Be Solved in the 21st Century?

    Will Downton Abbey’s Gender Problem Be Solved in the 21st Century?0

    A British aristocrat has daughters but no sons, thus his title and estate must pass to a distant male relative. It’s the classic plot device in many famous stories – ranging from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice to the TV show Downton Abbey. And it’s still the law of the land in Great Britain, but

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  • Will de Blasio’s Universal Pre-K Hurt Kids Instead of Help?

    Will de Blasio’s Universal Pre-K Hurt Kids Instead of Help?0

    Given the recent interest in starting universal preschool programs in states and cities around the country, it’s perhaps no surprise that The Atlantic highlighted the one begun by New York City mayor Bill de Blasio. As The Atlantic describes it, de Blasio’s preschool program is the great equalizer which gives the same goods and services

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