Episode 3: Arcade Fire
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Oberlin Is Forced to Check Its Woke Privilege
If there is one thing you learn about at Oberlin College, the notoriously progressive liberal-arts college, it is surely privilege: white privilege, hetero privilege, gender privilege, you name it.
Now, an Ohio jury has identified an entirely new variety, woke privilege, and resolved to hold people who ...
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Harvard Demonstrates Once Again That Post-Christian America Is Post-Forgiveness America
Today, Parkland-shooting survivor Kyle Kashuv tweeted that Harvard University had rescinded his admissions offer after it discovered that he’d made offensive, racist comments in a private online chat when he was 16 years old. I’m not going to repeat what he said, but no one disputes that his comments were ...
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Culture with Kat Timpf: 16-Year-Old Girl Shouldn’t Face Child-Porn Charges
Kat Timpf explains why a 16-year-old Maryland girl shouldn't be charged with child-porn distribution after making a video of herself.
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Trolling America in HBO’s Euphoria
Of HBO’s new series Euphoria, its creator and writer Sam Levinson says, “There are going to be parents who are going to be totally f***ing freaked out.” There is no “but” coming. The freak-out is the point, at least if the premiere episode is to be believed. HBO needs a zeitgeist-capturing successor to ...
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Kamala Harris’s Dreadful DA Record
In 2005, the sharp-elbowed, ambitious district attorney of San Francisco had the opportunity to correct an all-too-common prosecutorial violation of duty that the leading expert on prosecutorial misconduct found “accounts for more miscarriages of justice than any other type of malpractice.” Rather than seize ...
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Assembly of U.S. Catholics Bishops Reveals an Ugly, Incompetent Bureaucracy
More than 200 men in black suits sit in a conference hall in a Baltimore hotel. On folding tables in front of them hundreds of pieces of paper are scattered and pitchers of water are placed at regular intervals. Two tables raised in the front are lined with people apparently in charge, each with a microphone. ...
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The Case against Reparations
Editor’s Note: This piece was originally published on May 24, 2014.
Ta-Nehisi Coates has done a public service with his essay “The Case for Reparations,” and the service he has done is to show that there is not much of a case for reparations. Mr. Coates’s beautifully written monograph is intelligent ...
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In Toy Story 4, the Franchise Shows Its Age
For a film franchise, 24 years is middle-aged, bordering on elderly. Nearly a quarter-century after the first Toy Story, the fourth installment, which hits theaters later this week, feels a bit tired.
If earlier films in the franchise were about loss and abandonment and saying goodbye to childhood, this one is ...
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Oberlin Has Graduated from Self-Caricature to Disgrace
‘You Americans do not rear children, you incite them; you give them food and shelter and applause.”
-- Randall Jarrell, “Pictures from an Institution”
Washington -- Oberlin College has an admirable liberal past and a contemptible progressive present that will devalue its degrees far into the future. ...
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The China-Iran-Border Matrix
President Trump and Secretary Pompeo have worked the U.S. into an advantageous position with a consistent policy toward bad actors.
We are now at a point that even left and right agree that China’s rogue trajectory had to be altered. And while progressive critics of Beijing now are coming out of the woodwork ...
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