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  • Liberalism Is Broken and Canada Proves It

    Liberalism Is Broken and Canada Proves It1

    Liberalism is broken. This is a big kick-sand-in-my-face claim. And extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Canada’s embrace of euthanasia supplies that evidence. Let’s unpack this. First, what is “liberalism”? Its meaning shifts depending on whether one is speaking of economics or politics or ethics. Edmund Fawcett’s excellent Liberalism: The Life of an Idea, surveys scores of

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  • Liberal Prof Explains 6 Surprising Reasons for Today’s Campus Disarray

    Liberal Prof Explains 6 Surprising Reasons for Today’s Campus Disarray0

    If there’s one good thing coming out of the chaos on campus, it’s the bipartisanship. No longer is it simply conservative professors who believe that the university has lost all common sense. Liberal professors are recognizing the same thing and sounding the alarm. One of these individuals is Columbia University professor John McWhorter. McWhorter describes

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  • Liberal Academics Are ‘Open’ But Are They Truly Tolerant?

    Liberal Academics Are ‘Open’ But Are They Truly Tolerant?0

    One of the purposes of university is to challenge the opinions of students. This requires freedom of thought and a variety of voices. But academic departments today, especially in the social sciences, are far more liberal or progressive than the population at large. Conservative views are notably underrepresented. One survey even suggests that approximately 20

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  • LGBT Site Retracts Favorable Review of ‘Racist’ Gay Taco Film

    LGBT Site Retracts Favorable Review of ‘Racist’ Gay Taco Film0

    Funny man Seth Rogan apparently pushed the boundaries of comedy too far in Sausage Party, a computer-animated comedy starring himself, Salma Hayek, Kristen Wiig, and a dozen other Hollywood funny people. The film features a taco (Hayek) who develops feelings for a hotdog bun (Wiig). Get it? The movie is causing a bit of a

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  • Lettuce Pray: Climate Change, Neo-Paganism, and the End of the World

    Lettuce Pray: Climate Change, Neo-Paganism, and the End of the World0

    The climate change movement has become the “modern world’s secular religion,” declared Wall Street Journal columnist Gerard Baker recently. Climate activists preach a gospel of conservation that aims to redeem humanity’s environmental sins. They counsel us to abstain from eating meat to reduce our “carbon footprint,” and prophesy that Earth will perish unless governments worldwide trust the oracle from whom we

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  • Letting Shakespeare Be

    Letting Shakespeare Be1

    In a recent piece for the New York Times, Drew Lichtenberg, the artistic producer at the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, laments the closing of the California Shakespeare Theater and the widespread decline in productions of Shakespeare across the country. The reasons, he suggests, have to do with many things, including the expense of mounting a

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