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Robert P. George
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A spirit of authoritarianism is abroad in the land. Using outrage mobs to silence dissent (be it from the right or left) is a matter that should profoundly worry true
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1/ Something I've learned in 36 years of teaching super talented, high achieving, highly ambitious young men and women: A great many people believe what they believe because they think
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1/ It's not simply that we're polarized. An authoritarian spirit is abroad in the land. Everyone perceives it in the actions and rhetoric of their ideological adversaries. Most fail--utterly fail--to
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1/ In 1834, the German poet Heinrich Heine, whose books would later be burned by the Nazis because of his Jewish heritage, made a prophecy. A great insight is at
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1. Let's stop thinking of ourselves as alumni of this or that particular college. Let's regard ourselves as alumni of American higher education and reward and support outstanding programs in
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1/ If it’s right to criminalize, and deploy the power of the state to punish, a grave wrong, is it also right to criminalize and punish the speech of those
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1/ "Consenting adults." That's rhetoric we're all familiar with. For more than 70 years it's been a key phrase in the propaganda arsenal of sexual revolutionaries. "Liberation" from traditional norms
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1/ I sometimes ask students what their position on slavery would have been had they been white and living in the South before abolition. Guess what? They all would have
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1/ Perhaps the idea of law and the ideal of the rule of law are illusory. Perhaps there is only politics and power. Perhaps the "legal realists" and "critical legal
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