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  • Harvard Law Prof: Colleges have become ‘propaganda vehicles’

    Harvard Law Prof: Colleges have become ‘propaganda vehicles’0

    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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  • Yet More Evidence the SAT is Being Dumbed Down

    Yet More Evidence the SAT is Being Dumbed Down0

    We’ve been hearing for some time now that SAT scores are on the decline. For example, the year 2006 saw reading scores at 503, math scores at 518, and writing scores at 497. In 2016, however, the scores ran 494 for reading, 508 for math, and 482 for writing. When the scoring system change was

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  • What’s Wrong with the Right, the Left, AND the Center

    What’s Wrong with the Right, the Left, AND the Center0

    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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