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The Morality of Modern Education is Relativism 0
- Culture
- August 29, 2017
It would be a mistake or, at any rate, an exaggeration to say that modern education has turned its back on morality. It has not. It’s just that the morality it pursues is that of radical relativism with its radical skepticism about the benefits of the “great conversation” that has animated educated discourse for almost
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Antifa & Neo-Nazi Propaganda: Are you susceptible?0
- Culture
- August 29, 2017
Do you believe that anyone who disagrees with your beliefs is the enemy? Would you ever don the white “glory suit” of the KKK or the balaclava and black hoody of Antifa? Would you ever hold this sign? Would you ever stand with this group? Can you fill yourself with such rage that you would
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Mark Lilla: My Students Are Consumed with Their Own Identities 0
- Education
- August 29, 2017
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)0
- Culture
- August 29, 2017
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 0
- Economics
- August 28, 2017
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 0
- Culture
- August 28, 2017
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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