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December 15th, 2023
Univ President Liz McGill
By: Daniel Henninger – wsj.com – December 13, 2023 It may be no coincidence that colleges are abandoning SATs at the same time three university presidents were flunking questions in public about genocide. After receiving Fs for insisting that the answer to any direct question is “It depends on the context,” University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill lost her job...
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December 13th, 2023
area cordoned off by crime-scene tape
By: Jason L. Riley – wsj.com – December 12, 2023 That advice, more popularly known as the “success sequence,” is often credited to research done by Brookings Institution scholars Isabel Sawhill and Ron Haskins, though others have made similar observations. In his recent book, “Agency,” Ian Rowe of the American Enterprise Institute writes that the message “has attracted many admirers...
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December 13th, 2023
from the river to the sea Palestinian protesters
By: Ron E. Hassner – wsj.com – December 5, 2023 But only 47% of the students who embrace the slogan were able to name the river and the sea. Some of the alternative answers were the Nile and the Euphrates, the Caribbean, the Dead Sea (which is a lake) and the Atlantic. Less than a quarter of these students knew...
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December 12th, 2023
computer code on a screen - AI
When the internet was introduced to the general public in the early 1990s, it was met with a mix of emotions.
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December 12th, 2023
Paper handwritten sign - Abortion is essential healthcare
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday passed up a chance to consider overruling its own precedent allowing protective “bubble” zones around abortion clinic patients, turning away a challenge by a Catholic woman in New York to a now-repealed county law passed after the justices overturned abortion rights nationally in 2022.
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December 11th, 2023
Univ President Liz McGill
As I was watching the presidents of three elite universities testify before Congress on Tuesday, I wondered whether I was watching the beginning of Wokeism’s death throes.
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December 8th, 2023
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin
The war in Ukraine and Israel’s response to the October 7 terrorist attack signal a worldwide turn away from U.S. leadership.
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December 7th, 2023
rise of adolescent depression
I’ve spent years trying to understand the mental health crisis among teenage girls. But both sexes are suffering.
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December 7th, 2023
graphic illustration broken Universities - antisemitism
Gerrymandering Jews into an ‘oppressed’ class won’t save universities from a malevolent ideology.
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December 6th, 2023
Vivek Ramaswamy
The war, Vivek Ramaswamy acknowledges, could and likely will get worse. But we can already see the troops deployed and the battle lines drawn
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