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@benshapiro has no idea what he's talking about and may want to sit this one out: a thread.https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1169986803392073728 1) Jeffrey Klinzman, Kirkwood Community College (2019)https://www.thegazette.com/subjec
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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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I don’t think we talk enough about how the largest and most significant civil rights movement of my lifetime is motivated by identity politics. What is (was?) the liberal critique
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Interesting article on "woke" rhetoric, electability, and policy support from @RichardHanania George Hawley, and @epkaufm. It also gets at something I think is important about political correctness.A quick thread.https://psyarxiv.
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Trump has said something insane. What do you do?Are you a Trump supporter or anti-anti-Trumper?No: Denounce it.Yes: See below. Is whatever Trump said so crazy that absolutely nobody could take
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Happy Easter! Choosing Renaissance art for today is both very easy (so many options) and very, very hard (so many options). Here are the standouts:Giovanni Bellini, 1479. An open tomb,
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Not a Christian myself, but I doubt any single day has inspired as much beautiful art as Good Friday. Here are some Renaissance favorites to brighten(?) your timeline.Matthias Grunewald, The
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Today is Holy Saturday, the day when Christ descended into hell to raise up the souls of the virtuous dead. Not a common Renaissance subject, but there are a few
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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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That Left anti-Semitism piece in the Times today mentions briefly a genuine free speech scandal that deserves more attention. A GW student got recorded making a drunken off-campus comment about
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