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  • Mohammed Cartoon Publisher: The Definition of Tolerance has Changed

    Mohammed Cartoon Publisher: The Definition of Tolerance has Changed0

    A little more than a decade ago, Europe erupted over several cartoon drawings of the prophet Mohammed published in a Danish newspaper. For the man at the heart of the controversy, newspaper publisher Flemming Rose, the experience was an unpleasant one whose repercussions have continued to this day. In a recent interview for Reason Magazine,

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  • LA Times Editorial Board: Dear Colleges, Stop Squeezing Free Speech

    LA Times Editorial Board: Dear Colleges, Stop Squeezing Free Speech0

    A couple of weeks ago, my colleague Annie Holmquist wrote about Kevin Shaw, a student at California’s Pierce College, whom college officials threatened to kick off campus because he was handing out copies of the U.S. Constitution to interested students. Considering all the things happening on college campuses these days, cracking down on students offering

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  • Here’s to All the Men Who Help Women Reach the Finish Line

    Here’s to All the Men Who Help Women Reach the Finish Line0

    For all the downsides of social media, an upside is its ability to draw attention to otherwise overlooked stories of personal triumph and human kindness. You may very well have already seen this video of three runners participating in the “Love Run” half marathon in Philadelphia who stopped to help an exhausted woman cross the

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  • Claremont McKenna College Says Students Who Disrupted Heather Mac Donald Speech May Face Repercussions

    Claremont McKenna College Says Students Who Disrupted Heather Mac Donald Speech May Face Repercussions0

    Claremont McKenna College officials have announced possible repercussions for students who protested a conservative speaker’s speech last week. Protesters successfully blocked students and professors from entering an on-campus building to hear Heather Mac Donald’s pro-police speech, as reported by The Daily Signal last Friday. Mac Donald is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think

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  • Boys Don’t Need Books That ‘Put Them in Touch with Their Feelings’

    Boys Don’t Need Books That ‘Put Them in Touch with Their Feelings’0

    If you listen to cultural authorities on the question of why boys aren’t readings books, you will quickly discover the problem: the politically correct experts themselves and the Children’s Literature/Industrial Complex with which they are allied. Boys, they proclaim, need books that put them in touch with their feelings. Robert Lipsyte, writing in The New York

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  • Are Rights Anything More Than Legal Conventions?

    Are Rights Anything More Than Legal Conventions?0

    We live in an age of human rights. The language of human rights has become ubiquitous, a lingua franca used for expressing the most basic demands of justice. Some are old demands, such as the prohibition of torture and slavery. Others are newer, such as claims to internet access or same-sex marriage. But what are

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