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  • There’s No Western Civilization without Christianity

    There’s No Western Civilization without Christianity0

    As my boss is prone to remind me, you can’t enjoy the fruit by cutting down the tree. Yet, that is exactly what many today hope to do when it comes to Western civilization: they want a world permeated with Western values such as freedom, justice, and equality that no longer preserves a knowledge of

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  • Restoring the Four Pillars of Education

    Restoring the Four Pillars of Education1

    Few would argue that modern education is in crisis. Evidence suggests our system creates moral nihilists; professors admit they are teaching students who “know hardly anything about anything at all.” So what is to be done? If education is so bad, how do we fix it?  We need to begin by reexamining what constitutes a good education, a

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  • Fail U.: The False Promise of Higher Education

    Fail U.: The False Promise of Higher Education0

     Department of Education recently proposed new regulations to punish colleges that attract students with misleading claims. But what if the whole system of higher education in America is guilty of that? In his latest book, Charles Sykes, a senior fellow at the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, makes the case that it is. Fail U.: The False Promise of

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  • Professors Work to Restore Free Speech on Campus

    Professors Work to Restore Free Speech on Campus0

    Four classically liberal professors and an economist named Adam Smith walk into a room. No, this isn’t the beginning of a bad joke; it was the first event of the Classical Liberals in the Carolinas conference held last week at Johnson and Wales University in Charlotte. The annual conference, now in its third year, was

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  • Princeton HR Scrubs Word ‘Man’ From Lexicon

    Princeton HR Scrubs Word ‘Man’ From Lexicon0

    Via the College Fix: The Princeton University HR department has largely wiped the word “man” from its vocabulary. The relatively new policy in effect at the Ivy League institution spells out the directive in a four-page memo that aims to make the department more gender inclusive. Instead of using “man,” employees are told to use

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  • LGBT Site Retracts Favorable Review of ‘Racist’ Gay Taco Film

    LGBT Site Retracts Favorable Review of ‘Racist’ Gay Taco Film0

    Funny man Seth Rogan apparently pushed the boundaries of comedy too far in Sausage Party, a computer-animated comedy starring himself, Salma Hayek, Kristen Wiig, and a dozen other Hollywood funny people. The film features a taco (Hayek) who develops feelings for a hotdog bun (Wiig). Get it? The movie is causing a bit of a

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