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The flag is up: America is for all of us
Raised to see patriotism as hokey, Larissa Phillips is flying a U.S. flag this year.

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 43 min read
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DEI's done: Let's see what a colorblind America looks like
Donald Trump's executive order ending racial preferences will have far-reaching effects.

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 243 min read
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It's time for separation of race and state: No more little boxes
The Census doesn't ask people about their religion. Why not stop putting Americans in pseudo-racial boxes? , asks Michael Lind. The...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 8, 20241 min read
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A 'Colorblind America' sees race, but tries to treat people the same
"Anti-racism" is a kind of "neo-racism," argues Coleman Hughes in his new book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 29, 20243 min read
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Sympathy for the devil: What's the bad guy's point of view?
Novelist Rachel Kadish tells her creative-writing students to write a first-person monologue by a character with "abhorrent" views that...

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 20, 20242 min read
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'Identity doesn't learn algebra and history'
"You can't lift up people based on identity," Shelby Steele, a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, says in a conversation...

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 3, 20242 min read
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Blame diversity-crats for turning humanities into decolonial, anti-racist 'beards'
Humanities professors, under heavy pressure to prove their discipline is "useful," have gone political, writes Tyler Austin Harper in The...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 22, 20232 min read
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Gen Z: Whites are 'oppressors' -- especially Jews
"White people are oppressors," say 79 percent of young Americans 18 to 24 years old in a recent Harvard CAPS-Harris poll. "Nonwhite...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 17, 20232 min read
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DEI rejects merit, excellence, hard work, individual dignity
DEI isn't about diversity, equity or inclusion, writes Bari Weiss on Tablet. It is "an ideological movement bent on recategorizing every...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 13, 20232 min read
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Malice: STEM students mock trans survey
Asked their gender, race and disability status, a surprising number of engineering and computer science students identify as military...

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 22, 20233 min read
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Racial 'gamification' will go on unless students refuse to play
Elite universities reward applicants -- students and job-hunting professors -- who can play racial identity games, writes Tyler Austin...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 30, 20232 min read
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Ya gotta believe in 'the other CRT' if you want to teach
"Culturally relevant teaching" has spread rapidly, but it's getting some push back, writes Michael Torres on City Journal. "Families,...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 21, 20232 min read
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Autism doesn't define me -- or make me a worthwhile person
Emma Camp was diagnosed with autism in college, and embraced the explanation for her insecurities and personality quirks, she writes in a...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 23, 20232 min read
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Is SEL a 'Trojan horse' for identity politics?
Social-emotional learning (SEL) can mean the sort of things teachers have taught for generations: Count to ten to calm down, take turns,...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 27, 20222 min read
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