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Would-Be Tyrants Capture Language to Control Thought 0
- Culture
- August 14, 2017
Today’s counter-revolution against liberty is being fought on a number of fronts in American society. One is on college and university campuses across the country, where the ideology of “political correctness” is strangling freedom of speech and smothering intellectual controversy and debate. Critical to this campaign is the capture of language. It is through our
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Liz Harman and the ‘Schrödinger’s Baby’ Abortion Argument 0
- Culture
- August 14, 2017
A couple of weeks ago, Princeton professor Liz Harman joined James Franco and Eliot Michaelson (whoever that is) to discuss the morality of early abortion. The essence of her logically incoherent argument is that the morality of abortion depends on whether or not an abortion took place. More specifically, whether or not an “early fetus” has “moral
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Bill Maher is Starting to Sound Like Pat Buchanan on Immigration 0
- Culture
- August 14, 2017
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s Real Time, host Bill Maher sounded a little like—forgive me—Pat Buchanan. Discussing immigration and multiculturalism in America with guests Jon Meacham and Fareed Zakaria, Maher said immigration was a topic “worthy of debate,” particularly since the United States has had difficulty assimilating immigrants in recent decades. “One of the first
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Why Didn’t Sanctions Stop North Korea’s Missile Program?0
- International
- August 14, 2017
North Korea’s long-range missile program has made significant technological advances in the past few months. For most of the past 20 years, the international community has struggled to stop this kind of progress. Kim Jong Un’s plan to target four test missiles approximately 20 miles off the coast of the U.S. territory of Guam shows just how
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5 Facts about the Alt-Right 0
- Economics
- August 14, 2017
Rally held in Charlottesville, Virginia this weekend ended in violence and domestic terrorism, as white nationalist groups clashed with counter-protestors. The Unite the Right rally was intended, as co-promoter Matthew Heimbach explains, to unite the alt-right around the “14 words”: “We must secure the existence of our people and the future for white children’—as our primary motivating
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Are Today’s Protests the Result of Minimal Logic in Schools?0
- Culture
- August 14, 2017
If the protests between right and left, anti-fascists and white nationalists on college campuses and in cities like Charlottesville have taught us anything, it’s that America is only seeing the tip of the iceberg. Unfortunately for the whole country, dissension and chaos don’t seem to be showing any signs of letting up. The interesting thing
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