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  • Mark Lilla: My Students Are Consumed with Their Own Identities

    Mark Lilla: My Students Are Consumed with Their Own Identities0

    The New Yorker, one of the last great literary publications still in existence, recently ran a fascinating interview with Mark Lilla. For those unfamiliar with Lilla, he is a professor at Columbia who caused a bit of a fuss last November when he wrote an article for the New York Times imploring fellow liberals to

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  • Violence Can’t Be Justified Because You Don’t Like What Someone Says (Video)

    Violence Can’t Be Justified Because You Don’t Like What Someone Says (Video)0

    The optics of the video (see below) are chilling: At the August 20 “America First” rally in Laguna Beach, California, a large white man sucker-punches a well-dressed, slightly built black man. Perhaps ironically, this incident does not fit stereotypical expectations: The punching victim, R. C. Maxwell, was not protesting against the anti-illegal immigration rally but attending

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  • You’re Stupid, So We Are Going to Take Away Your Freedom

    You’re Stupid, So We Are Going to Take Away Your Freedom0

    In a country based on the principle of liberty, should we really contemplate depriving people of freedom because they sometimes don’t make choices experts think are best for them? My title really understates the liberty-depriving philosophy of the nanny state. More accurately, it is: Some people make what we think are bad choices, so we

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  • Antifa Attack Peaceful Demonstrators to Stop Hate at Berkeley

    Antifa Attack Peaceful Demonstrators to Stop Hate at Berkeley0

    The Washington Post has the latest chapter in the Battle of Berkeley, which broke out over the weekend. Here is the colorful lead: Their faces hidden behind black bandannas and hoodies, about a 100 anarchists and antifa — “anti-fascist” — barreled into a protest Sunday afternoon in Berkeley’s Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park.

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  • Did Medieval Medicine Ever Work?

    Did Medieval Medicine Ever Work?1

    It all began as one of those Friday afternoon projects that medical researchers sometimes do to satisfy curiosity. No one expected it to work. The researchers were testing medieval medical remedies by replicating a 1000-year-old recipe for an eye salve. They were prepared to see it prove that medieval medicine was backward and even superstitious.

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  • 3 Back to School Thoughts from G.K. Chesterton

    3 Back to School Thoughts from G.K. Chesterton0

    Every year, the approach of fall signals to children and parents that it’s time to gear up and begin the cycle of packing lunches, picking out clothes, racing to the bus stop, and coming home at night with armloads of books and homework once again. But while parents and children across America know this drill

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