“Race, class, gender.” For more than a generation now, the academic left has relied on these as hermeneutical keys for interpreting just about everything. I recall the great historian of Victorian England Gertrude Himmelfarb, speaking wryly at a 1980’s convention of the American Historical Association: “Professors might as well create a keyboard shortcut for the
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Conservatives have many ideological complaints about the current public education system: the way it indoctrinates their children, the way it teaches them history, the way it institutionalizes them. Their most recent issue (which, arguably, many liberal parents have a problem with, too) is over the federal government’s mandate that a transgender boy at a Chicago-area
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‘Can you hear me now?’ should be the headline. Establishment, inside, elite politicians and media have heard and are still stunned. They don’t quite know yet what to make of the results of Election 2016 in America because as of the moment this is being written, the results aren’t yet fully in. But from what
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In many school districts across the country, the day after the election was greeted with tears, shock, and intensified efforts for support and counseling. St. Paul Public Schools, a district in Intellectual Takeout’s backyard, was one of those districts: “Supervisory counselors were slated to check in with school staff to identify any schools that are
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Several days ago, Intellectual Takeout highlighted the plight of a college professor who is being persecuted for questioning the validity of the college’s “diversity” program. Students marched on the president’s office demanding that the professor be fired; the president, kowtowing before the student bullies, issued a statement affirming the “diversity” program that the professor had
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Columbia University President Lee Bollinger urged the student body and Columbia faculty to return to the school’s “fundamental values” following Donald Trump’s surprising presidential victory Tuesday, which triggered a firestorm on campus. “I am writing because of concerns for our community arising out of yesterday’s national election. Certainly, not in my lifetime has there been
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