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Violence Is the Language of the Unthinking 0
- Culture
- June 24, 2020
I made the mistake of scrolling through Twitter last night before I went to bed. It was filled with videos and stories from recent days about statue toppling, violence, and individuals taking their anger out on others. Perhaps one of the most disturbing is the clip of a black man beating up a white employee
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Stop Decolonizing Bookshelves and Keep an Open Mind 0
- Culture
- June 23, 2020
The movement to “decolonize your bookshelf” has been around for a few years, albeit mostly confined to college campuses and radical left-wing circles. Fiction author Juan Vidal defended the idea of the “decolonize bookshelves” movement in an article for National Public Radio, a media outlet that receives taxpayer funding. “I can’t help but wonder whether
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The Bob Dylan Song to Guide Today’s Protestors 0
- Culture
- June 23, 2020
In 1963, Bob Dylan was a fresh-faced kid probably unrecognizable to most Americans, but he showed he was already an old soul when he delivered a speech in the Grand Ballroom of New York City’s American Hotel that December. It was about two weeks before Christmas, and Dylan was on hand to receive the Tom
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Cancel Yale and Rename It ‘Dummer University’0
- Education
- June 23, 2020
I see that #CancelYale is trending on Twitter and elsewhere in social media. It’s a development I’d like to encourage – not, to be frank, because I think that canceling things is a good idea. Quite the opposite. But if the Left is going to pursue its dream of destroying every reminder of our past it doesn’t
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Kids Have No Place at Protests 0
- Politics
- June 23, 2020
America is awash with protests right now. Thousands are taking to the streets – and it is not uncommon to see children among the crowds. There is a practical reason for that. The ongoing coronavirus shutdown means it is hard for parents to arrange babysitting. But many parents also believe taking children to protests constitutes
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The Systemic Racism Argument Ignores Free Will 0
- Philosophy
- June 23, 2020
In college I took a course on debating and argument. Well, to say I took the course may be a stretch; I dropped it after a few days after pushing back against the politics of my classmates and receiving this assertion from my instructor in response: “Institutional racism is a fact whether or not I
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