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Harvard Prof Calls Out Antifa for Trying to ‘Tear Down America’0
- Culture
- August 22, 2017
Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz said Tuesday that liberals should not treat Antifa members as heroes for tearing down Confederate monuments because they are trying to “tear down America.” “Do not glorify the violent people who are now tearing down the statues. Many of these people, not all of them, many of these people are trying
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The Death of Civic Engagement 0
- Culture
- August 21, 2017
In May, Utah Senator Mike Lee released the first report in his Social Capital Project called What We Do Together: the State of Associational Life in America. According to Lee, the state of associational life in America may be more important than we realize. As American society has changed over the past 40 years, the
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Privatize the Public Monuments 0
- Culture
- August 21, 2017
When I was a student at the University of Colorado, I regularly walked by the Dalton Trumbo memorial fountain which, of course, was named after the communist Stalin-sympathizing novelist and screenwriter. Once upon a time, the fountain had been simply known as “the fountain,” but around 25 years ago, it was unnecessarily renamed after a controversial person. The reason for the
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‘Worst Teachers in the System’ Set to Join Struggling Schools, Principal Says 0
- Economics
- August 21, 2017
We’ve probably all heard some type of rumor about “rubber rooms” before. They’re the hangout of those in the Absent Teacher Reserve pool, a group of New York teachers who haven’t been assigned to an official position in a classroom, and instead remain in a paid, “on-call” type of status. This status originally came about
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Dear Media: Stop Putting Scare Quotes Around ‘Free Speech’0
- Culture
- August 21, 2017
Irony punctuation is an age-old (and effective) literary device writers use as a sort of wink to readers. Techniques vary, but a particularly popular device is the use of “scare quotes,” which indicate to readers the word or phrase in the quotes should be viewed with skepticism. (A less subtle way of conveying this would
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You Can’t Stop Fascism by Killing the Next Hitler 0
- History
- August 21, 2017
Joshua Witt sports a haircut fashionable among young men—full on the top and buzz cut on the sides. Recently after a haircut in Colorado, a man came up to Joshua and asked, “Are you one of them neo-Nazis?” As he asked, the stranger was swinging a knife and stabbed Joshua. Nicholas Fuentes, a Boston University
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