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Ezra Klein’s Intellectual Demagoguery
Ezra Klein wants you to know that he doesn’t think Sam Harris is a racist. “I’m not here to say you’re racist, I don’t think you are,” Klein explains in a two-hour debate with Harris on the latter’s podcast, Waking Up. “We have not called you one.” No, not at all. Klein is telling the truth ...
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Media Outlets Ignore Key Data in New Abortion-Attitudes Survey
A new poll on abortion attitudes by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) has received a considerable amount of media coverage this week. Interestingly, the survey asks not only about attitudes toward legal abortion but also asks respondents to self-report whether or not their attitudes toward abortion ...
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A Marquette Professor Fights for His Speech Rights
‘Written perhaps by the ghost of Orwell.”
That is how Wisconsin supreme-court justice Michael Gableman described the Marquette University Faculty Hearing Committee (FHC) report that led to the 2015 termination of tenured professor John McAdams.
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Yesterday the court ...
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Facebook Changes Are Far from Straightforward
Facebook's critics often seem to suggest that there are easy and straightforward solutions to the tech giant's challenges.
For example, it is often argued that Facebook should simply label political and issue ads and show who paid for them. This sounds easy, but it faces a perennial challenge in regulating ...
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The Scholarship/Activism Balance — A Rejoinder
The Martin Center recently published an article by sociology professor Fabio Rojas, in which he argued that professors should maintain the right balance between their teaching and scholarship on the one hand, and activism on the other. In today's article, the Center's Jay Schalin pushes back somewhat.
Schalin ...
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The Book Comey Wanted to Write
Making the click-through worthwhile: the book James Comey had wanted to write, Facebook starts to feel useless to some writers, an infamous D.C. city councilman manages to make everything worse, and Hillary Clinton’s campaign finds its wish granted.
What Did James Comey’s First Draft of A Higher ...
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Comey’s Handling of Hillary Clinton Shows Us That He’s No Hero
After being pressed by former top Bill Clinton political aide George Stephanopoulos on ABC News, James Comey admitted that he had “screwed up a couple of things.”
The former FBI director wasn’t talking about his failure to notify then–president-elect Donald Trump that unsubstantiated rumors paid for by ...
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We Happy Few: The NR 2018 Spring Webathon Needs Your Participation
Here, grab my hand and I’ll yank you up atop the ramparts with us so you can join the fight against the enemies of all we hold dear. Of course, we’ll need some ammunition: Can you spare some? National Review’s fight is your fight: It’s a grim one without the participation of a full complement of that band ...
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Pro-Life Feminist
My paisana at the Human Life Review are hosting an event in NYC on Thursday, May 3, at the Sheen Center (18 Bleeker Street) for the airing of director Jim Hanon’s half-hour documentary, Pro-Life Feminist. After the viewing, he’ll join the trio of castmates -- Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa, Aimee Murphy, and ...
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The Times Best-Seller List: Another Reason Americans Don’t Trust the Media
About half the American people do not believe the mainstream media tell the truth. They believe the media are more interested in promoting their left-wing views than reporting the truth.
I am, I note with sadness, a member of that half.
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Here is but one more example: the New ...
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