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  • Jonathan Swift Explains Why We Don’t Trust Politicians

    Jonathan Swift Explains Why We Don’t Trust Politicians0

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  • Jonathan Haidt: 6 Ways Universities Can Fight Intellectual Intolerance

    Jonathan Haidt: 6 Ways Universities Can Fight Intellectual Intolerance0

    New York University professor Jonathan Haidt has become one of the most vocal critics of the university system’s culture of intolerance. The founder of Heterodoxy Academy, whose mission is to improve “the academy by enhancing viewpoint diversity and the conditions that encourage free inquiry,” Haidt says universities today face an enormous but important challenge: “They must

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  • Jonathan Edwards and Living a Transformed Life

    Jonathan Edwards and Living a Transformed Life1

    If I made a list of all the theologians I’ve seen caricaturized, unjustifiably dismissed, or just plain misunderstood, Jonathan Edwards would be near the top. He is perhaps best known for “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” a hellfire-and-brimstone sermon that depicted all humanity suspended above the realm of the dead, completely at

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  • John Wayne: The New Confederate Statue

    John Wayne: The New Confederate Statue1

    Writes a reader from Southern California: “Apparently John Wayne is the new Confederate statue.” She sent a link to this op-ed column in the Los Angeles Times. Excerpts: Most people familiar with the life story of John Wayne are aware that the late movie star was a dyed-in-the-wool right-winger — after all, he was still

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  • John Wayne is Dead, John Lennon is Dying

    John Wayne is Dead, John Lennon is Dying0

    Many years ago, growing up in England, I witnessed the dying embers of loyalty to a dead British Empire. For my father’s generation the unthinkable had happened. Night had fallen on the Empire on which they were raised to believe the sun would never set. As a child, my father told me that there were

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  • John Taylor Gatto (1935-2018): Remembering America’s Most Courageous Teacher

    John Taylor Gatto (1935-2018): Remembering America’s Most Courageous Teacher0

    It is with a heavy heart that we mourn the passing of a revolutionary educator, John Taylor Gatto. Gatto spent nearly 30 years as a teacher in the infamously rough New York City public school system. He was awarded New York City Teacher of the Year three consecutive years while also being recognized as New

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