WSJ Sept. 19, 2017 7:13 p.m. ET ‘Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government,” wrote Ben Franklin. “When this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved.” Imagine what Franklin, James Madison and the other Founders would make of a new Brookings Institution survey showing that American college students have no clue what... Read more
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James Madison Weeps
September 27 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, Education, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, The Left, US ConstitutionThe Poison of Identity Politics
August 15 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, American Thought, Economics, The LeftI see this every day. America needs to come to grips or the future will not be pretty. ======= WSJ 8/14/2017 As ever in this age of Donald Trump, politicians and journalists are reducing the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday to a debate over Mr. Trump’s words and intentions. That’s a mistake no matter what you think of the President, because the... Read more
American Support for Muslim School Groups Grow
August 15 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, American ThoughtWSJ 8/15/2017 By Paul E. Peterson
As lawsuits multiply and partisans continue to squabble over President Donald Trump’s executive order banning migration from six majority-Muslim nations, liberals in the mainstream media have been pushing the line that America’s historic tolerance of religious diversity no longer extends to adherents of the Islamic faith. A just-released Education Next survey...
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Don’t Even Think About Being Evil
August 15 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, American Thought, Politically correctHope this doesn’t reflect on my work-place, but not sure I would bet money on that. ===== WSJ 8/15/2017 By Heather Mac Donald ‘Just wait till those campus snowflakes enter the real world—that’ll shape ’em up!” So goes a typical response to totalitarian hysteria at colleges. The firing of a Google engineer last week for questioning the company’s diversity ideology exposes that hope as... Read more
A Philosopher Gets Pilloried
May 12 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, Liberal Press, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, The LeftAnother example of the left’s ‘war on free speech’. Don’t argue the issue, rather attack the messenger. ====== By Jillian Kay Melchior [ as reported in WSJ 5/9/2017] Usually, when junior professors publish scholarly articles, they are lucky to elicit more than a yawn. But last week the philosophical musings of Rebecca Tuvel, an associate professor at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn., provoked... Read more
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