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Anarchy in Portland – WSJ

August 5 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, Policing, The Left

Hard to believe this one. ====== WSJ 8/4/2018 Along the trolley tracks behind the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office, a biohazard cleanup crew works under police protection. It finds used needles and buckets of human waste simmering in nearly 100degree heat. The smell of urine and feces fills the block. For more than five weeks, as many as 200 people had... Read more

A Movement Rises to Take Back Higher Education – WSJ

June 20 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, Politically correct

Good news, indeed. ====== By Emily Esfahani Smith   –  June 17, 2018 1:59 p.m. ET Debra Mashek, a psychology professor at Harvey Mudd College, was leading a class discussion about intellectual humility this past semester when the conversation came to a halt. Ms. Mashek asked the students to think of ways in which, during an argument, they could signal intellectual humility—that is, admit... Read more

Free Markets; Free Press

May 5 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, Economics

WSJ 5/2/2018   By Kevin Brookes And Patrick Déry

Sixty-five journalists were killed while plying their trade in 2017, according to a report from Reporters Without Borders. This was the grimmest detail from the organization’s press-freedom update, which depicts dark times for the media. This Monday, nine journalists were among at least 25 people killed in two bombings... Read more

Why are So Many People Closed Minded??

April 23 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, American Thought, The Left

If you don’t appreciate this article, you are BLIND. ===== WSJ 4/23/2018 By Annafi Wahed It was an unseasonably cold night, but I made the trek from Harlem to a meetup in Brooklyn. The organizers promised a night of big ideas and freethinking; the group thread included a quote from David Bohm about the virtue of free dialogue. But as with many such... Read more

Are We Free to Discuss America’s Real Problems? – Imprimis

March 1 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, American Thought, Losing Freedom

Very timely article. Thanks to Hillsdale College. https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/are-we-free-to-discuss-americas-real-problems/ ====== The following is adapted from a speech delivered on December 12, 2017, at Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C., as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series. There is a lot of abstract talk these days on American college campuses about free speech and the... Read more

When Listening is Not Listening

November 19 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, Education, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, The Left

=== WSJ 11/16/2017 By Zachary Wood – Williamstown, Mass. ‘You’re a racist white supremacist!” a Williams College student shouted at Christina Hoff Sommers, after she finished a recent campus talk on feminism. To their credit, a handful of students responded to Ms. Sommers’s talk with challenging questions and cogent criticisms. But insults, rants and meltdowns consumed the majority of the question-and-answer session. As president... Read more

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