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Yale Limbos Under the Lowest Standards for Free Speech and Integrity. It...
Remember when a couple of faculty members who supervised a Yale dorm were run out of their position by screaming bullies? (The supervisory position was called “College Master” until recently. That term...
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The Language Police Troll Me After the London Attacks. Here is My Response
After my plain-langue posts on the London attacks, the language police tried to collar me with a Citizens Arrest. Here’s the comment, in its full glory. Stop saying “Islamist”. It’s a made-up, racist...
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ZipDialog Roundup for Friday, June 16
Articles chosen with care. Comments welcomed. Linked articles in bold purple ◆ Long-term trend: Worsening divide between the parties (New York Times) Voters were asked to rate their own party and the...
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ZipDialog Roundup for Sunday, June 25
Articles chosen with care. Comments welcomed. Linked articles in bold purple ◆ Speculation grows that Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy will announce his retirement. The current Court year ends...
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ZipDialog Roundup for Thursday, August 17….Meanwhile, in other news
Articles chosen with care. Your comments welcomed. Linked articles in bold purple ◆ Now that the aftermath of the Charlottesville terror has formed a clear pattern, ZipDialog will feature some other...
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Censoring those statues: When YOU do it, you are an uncultured redneck. When...
If you have a long memory, you might recall George W. Bush’s Attorney General John Ashcroft deciding to change the backdrop at the Department of Justice. Initially, when he held press conferences, he...
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ZipDialog Roundup for Tuesday, August 22
Articles chosen with care. Your comments welcomed. Linked articles in bold purple ◆ Trump speech on Afghanistan A full analysis in a separate ZipDialog post (link here) ◆ US Navy’s deadline collision...
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ZipDialog Roundup for September 2
Articles chosen with care. Your comments welcomed. Linked articles in bold purple ◆ Melania Trump–to her great credit–wore high heels to Texas today. Comment: I normally would not comment on such...
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Who is Ben Shapiro and why is Berkeley treating his upcoming speech like a...
On Thursday, Ben Shapiro is scheduled to speak at the University of California, Berkeley, which has tried very hard for months to prevent him from speaking. Some Background on Ben Shapiro Shapiro is a...
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The latest in college crazies
Articles chosen with care. Your comments welcomed. Linked articles in bold purple ◆ If bad actions on campus did not reverberate, they would not be worth much attention. Unfortunately, they do ripple...
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Quote of the Day: Harvard’s Idea of Diversity
Harvard’s idea of diversity is for everyone to look different and think alike. –Harvey Silverglate Silverglate, a distinguished lawyer and a long-time liberal, helped found FIRE, the Foundation for...
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Cambridge students given trigger warnings: Shakespeare plays may distress them
The delicacy of these students pales beside that of theology students at the University of Glasgow. More on that in a minute. At Cambridge, one of the “distressing” Shakespeare plays is named...
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ZipDialog Roundup for Monday, November 6
Articles chosen with care. Your comments welcomed. Linked articles in bold purple ◆ Trump in Asia: What Matters about the Trip (a comment) The trip has three main goals, all important but in tension...
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Open anti-Semitism at one of Canada’s top universities
McGill, one of Canada’s elite universities, is infected with virulent hatred of Jews and Israel, according to a new report from the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. There have been repeated campaigns...
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Today in University Snowflakes, figuratively and literally: “I’m Dreaming of...
It happened in London, but it could just as easily have happened at any American university. The outrage, which is either feigned or hypersensitive, illustrates the usual combo that work together to...
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