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Harvard Law Prof: Colleges have become ‘propaganda vehicles’0
- Education
- September 27, 2017
Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz, appearing on Fox Business on Wednesday morning, offered a bleak assessment of the American university system in 2017. “Classrooms have become propaganda vehicles where captive audiences of students are told not how to think but what to think, particularly about sensitive issues like the Middle East, the Arab-Israeli conflict,
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What You Should Know About Trump’s Tax Reform Framework 0
- Economics
- September 27, 2017
Later today in a speech in Indiana, President Trump will outline his tax reform framework. Here’s what you should know about the president’s plan: What are the goals of the tax reform framework? Trump’s tax plan has four stated goals: 1. Make the tax code simple, fair and easy to understand. 2. Give American workers
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Using the National Anthem and U.S. Flag to Protest is Not Helpful 0
- Culture
- September 26, 2017
How this all started and how it escalated is less important than the weekend blowup that engulfed America, when average folks count on taking a break from tensions of the week at work and in the news and enjoy the diversion of sports events. Now it’s all blurring together and social tensions have invaded the
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In Defense Of Virtue Signaling 0
- Culture
- September 26, 2017
Accusations of “virtue signaling” have become ubiquitous in online debate. It’s practically a Law of the Internet that, as soon as a controversial opinion is expressed, a commenter will appear to magnanimously and courageously set the record straight by explaining that, actually, it should be ignored because the author is just trying to look good
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What’s Wrong with the Right, the Left, AND the Center 0
- Politics
- September 26, 2017
I consider myself politically homeless, and have for a while now. I started out as a ‘campus leftist’ or ‘social justice warrior’, knee-deep in the works of Marx and Marcuse, Horkheimer and Habermas. But life as an expat in China changed my outlook somewhat. Witnessing the marriage between a communist state and its
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How to Select the Best Books for Your Kids 0
- Culture
- September 26, 2017
The other day I received a brief survey from Renaissance Learning. Designed for parents, teachers, and administrators, it asked participants to list three must-read books for students in the following age categories: At first blush, the survey may seem simple and almost frivolous in nature. But in actuality, the books we select for our children
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Harvard Law Prof: Colleges have become ‘propaganda vehicles’0