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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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  • Letters of Love: A Special Gift for Valentine’s Day

    Letters of Love: A Special Gift for Valentine’s Day1

    I received my first Valentine’s Day card just two weeks before my second birthday. My mother kept a scrapbook account of my childhood and youth. Today, the pages fall apart at a finger’s touch, but my birth certificate, school report cards, memoranda of various achievements and events, and cards sent to me in celebration of

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  • Letter to a Worried Grandma

    Letter to a Worried Grandma0

    A grandma wrote to say she’d seen her daughter cutting up her granddaughters’ meat at dinner—and the kids are in middle and high school. Their mom also chooses their clothes. The kids get straight A’s, but the grandma worries that they are being coddled into becoming imbeciles. My response: Grannie—I am sorry to say that

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