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Despite the Holocaust, 'competitive victimhood' is a loser for Jews
Anti-antisemitism rules for schools won't work, and more Holocaust education isn't the answer.

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 143 min read
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Book 'bans' sell books
Libraries celebrate "banned" books that are widely available, but help readers access right-wing books.

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 133 min read
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Harvard profs say students don't speak up in class (if they show up at all)
Harvard students skip class, don't do the reading and, if they do show up, are afraid to express dissenting views, say professors.

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 122 min read
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National parks remove 'negative' signs
Do national park visitors want to look at the view or read the viewpoints of whoever's running the Park Service?

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 232 min read
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Hating the haters: Americans have a right to be nasty
"Hate speech does not exist legally in America," wrote Charlie Kirk. "Keep America free."

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 172 min read
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Can teachers be fired for celebrating murder?
Teachers' "disruptive" speech may not be protected, even if it's on their own time.

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 162 min read
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Did college radicalize Tyler Robinson?
Something happened to Tyler Robinson, but it's probably not a semester of engineering classes.

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 131 min read
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When speech is violence and violence is resistance ...
An increasing number of college students -- on the left and right -- think violence is justified to silence offensive ideas.

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 112 min read
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'You rebel against a world that tells you mediocrity is good enough'
"Freedom and excellence run on inequality," said President Carlos Carvalho in a convocation to mark the start of University of Austin's second year.

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 22 min read
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College conformists: 88% of students say they fake progressive views to get along
Most college students pretend to agree with left-wing views to fit in on campus, concludes a new survey.

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 142 min read
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Words will never hurt you -- unless you're incredibly fragile
It's a free country and you're entitled to your opinion. Bring back resilience, free thought and intellectual humility.

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 102 min read
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'Americans got tired of being ridiculed for values like equality, color-blindness, and responsibility,' and now it's backlash time
The anti-DEI backlash is fierce, because so many people were forced to suppress their real feelings.

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 182 min read
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Snitching on your neighbor
"Bias reporting" urges people to turn their neighbors in for "wrongthink."

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 253 min read
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Is DEI doomed?
University DEI programs are losing popularity on campus and off.

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 7, 20242 min read
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Teach math! That's hate speech, Dad
Investigating threats against school officials didn't violate parents' freedom of speech, say courts.

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 13, 20241 min read
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Just say 'no' to authority
Would-be regulators of "disinformation" are trying to punish deviation from their beliefs, charges journalist Matt Taibbi in The Free...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 7, 20242 min read
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If the government decides what's 'misinformation,' free speech is dead
Politicians who want to protect us from "misinformation" or "hate speech" want to end free speech.

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 6, 20242 min read
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71% of students say they'd report a professor for 'wrongthink'
College students are unwilling to tolerate professors with "offensive" opinions.

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 29, 20242 min read
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Judge: 1st-graders' free-speech rights don't matter
After a lesson on Martin Luther King Jr. at a southern California elementary school, a seven -year-old white girl drew a picture with...

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 20, 20242 min read
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Conservative students learn to argue in college -- liberals stay in their bubble
Conservative students sharpen their ideas and listen to alternative perspectives -- they learn -- on very liberal college campuses,...

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 11, 20243 min read
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