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New legislative session, new assault on academic freedom and campus free speech.In Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, and Mississippi, GOP reps have introduced bills that punish public schools and universities for teaching
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Yikes. Yeah, religious institutions/culture is a real blind spot for liberal centrist types. Not all, obviously (Friedersdorf is good), but most. Hence this, or Cathy Young’s assertion last month that
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I regret to inform you that he is right. Obviously it's great that Trump is off Twitter, but watching multiple platforms flex their muscle in unison like this is terrifying
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Just before Christmas, @LoganRStrother presented findings of a paper he co-wrote on university indoctrination among freshmen -- namely, that there is no evidence it happens. This prompted a reply from
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Every time I post a new study showing that university indoctrination does not happen (and there's usually one every 2-3 months), I get the same stubbornly dismissive range of responses.
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New from me: Drawing on a survey of 20K+ students from 55 universities, @RealClearEd and @TheFIREorg have ranked schools according to how healthy the free speech climate is on campus.
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Gripe: Lots of folks are saying that the reason people aren't obeying basic public health recommendations is because public health authorities burned up all their credibility by reversing on the
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There's a full-blown campaign right now to cancel Seth Rogan (you can google it if you want), which reminds me that I wanted to follow up on a point @olivertraldi
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@Noahpinion seems to have deleted this tweet, which is a shame, because I think he’s right. But scrolling through his replies, it looks like he’s getting two types of objections.
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Ever so briefly coming out of Twitter Vacation. I really shouldn't, but today's contretemps are just too contre to pass up. In short, I think The Letter is fine. I'd
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Remember: it never feels like an Outrage Mob when you're a part of it.https://twitter.com/emilyvdw/status/1281153701290274819 This really could be a series. But rather than make a simple point about hypocrisy, let
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Assuming Colin's concern is with the relative lack of conservatives in the academy, I'm afraid he's doomed. To see why, it's helpful to zoom out and get a sense of
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