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Another Trophy is Claimed at Missouri 0
- Culture
- November 11, 2015
Campus Reform reports that “Dr. Dale Brigham, considered one of the most beloved professors at the University of Missouri, has been forced to resign after initially refusing to cancel an exam for students who claimed to feel ‘unsafe.’ ‘If you don’t feel safe coming to class, then don’t come to class,’ Dr. Brigham told his
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College Isn’t the Time for a “Broad Education”0
- Education
- November 10, 2015
I always roll my eyes when I hear liberal arts professors today defending general requirements and expounding on the glories of a broad education. It’s not that I disagree with them about the value of a broad education (after all, my doctorate is in one of the liberal arts). It’s just that I think college
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What One of History’s Greatest Intellects Said About His Writings 0
- Uncategorized
- November 10, 2015
“All that I have written seems to me as so much straw.” No, these aren’t the words of a modern blogger. They came from St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), without question one of the greatest intellects history has known. How brilliant was Aquinas? He conducted quodlibetal disputations, in which a gathered crowd at the university could
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Fragile Snowflakes or Manipulative Narcissists?0
- Culture
- November 10, 2015
At the same time some students are flexing their political muscles (with the help of some professors) at the University of Missouri, Yale, and other schools demanding “safe space”, we’re treated to an increasing number of stories about the lack of resilience and overall fragility of many college students. Quite honestly, the psychology of it
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How to Politically Condition a Generation 0
- Culture
- November 10, 2015
With all of the intolerance of “offensive” speech and ideas, it’s worth considering what could be happening. Is it all just to create a better society or are we being coerced into a certain mindset? Sure, what’s going on is not on the level of some of the tyrannies of the 20th century or fictions
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When Truth is Relative, Racism is Okay 0
- Culture
- November 10, 2015
Our outrage is real. We feel injustices in our very souls. As such, we must ask ourselves why that is and in so doing we are confronted with two options: 1) social constructs are pressuring us to feel a certain way or 2) there is a transcendent truth to which our sense of justice appeals.
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