October’s East Asian Summit, held in Hanoi, Vietnam, offered hope of a peaceful integration of the rising Chinese hegemony into Southeast Asia’s governing community.
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Civility Lost
The venerable James Buckley addressed a group of roughly 60 attendees at the Heritage Foundation last week.
Striking Oil
Taxing the oil industry and refusing access to important U.S. shale reserves would drive up both the Federal government’s debt and the U.S. unemployment rate, according to Kyle Isakower of the American Petroleum Institute.
Revolving Axis of Evil
In their search for villains, media elites, not to mention political ones, frequently overlook genuine malefactors.
Constitutionally Out of Touch
It’s bad enough when recognized scholars go outside of their subject areas. It’s worse when they offer novel interpretations of their own alleged fields of expertise.
Show Me The Hugo
Looking for loans in all the wrong places—Venezuela.
Another Cold War
“If Republicans are to remain true to the verdict of 2010, the message of this election cannot be merely containment; it must be rollback.”— University of Virginia professor of politics James W. Ceaser in the Fall 2010 Claremont Review of Books.
Still DREAMing of Entitlements
Although the U. S. Senate voted down the federal government’s latest attempt to expand government entitlements, academics remain just as adamantly for it.
Academic Advice to Congress
An academic has recommended a plan of action for the new U. S. Congress that is actually partly grounded in reality.
California DREAMers
Administrators at California State University’s Fresno campus may have been so anxious to pass the federal DREAM Act that they did not question the legality of the actions of the Student Body president promoting it, a self-described student activist claimed.
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White Pins Worn by Students to Remind Selves of White Privilege
Elizabethtown College students began to wear white pins to remember white privilege, per The College Fix: The campaign was launched over the weekend by the Elizabethtown College Democrats, who say it aims to make students at the small…
Gettysburg Anti-Capitalist Student Group Builds ‘Trump Wall’
From Campus Reform: The Gettysburg College Anti-Capitalist Collective (GACC) assembled a “Trump wall” made of paper boxes in the school’s library labeled, “THIS IS THE WALL THAT TRUMP IS BUILDING.” Seven individual signs plastered on…
Research Universities File Brief against Donald Trump’s Executive Order
Interesting development from academia, where universities signed onto an amicus brief against President Trump’s executive order on refugee vetting.
Clemson University Faculty Signed Up for Anti-Trump Protest Group
From Campus Reform: Faculty members and students at Clemson University, inspired by a trending anti-Trump manifesto, are amping up their political boycotts of the country’s new president. The protest group, known as “Indivisible Clemson,” explicitly…
Study: Extreme Protest Tactics Hurt Protesters’ Case and Public Support
From Campus Reform: Blocking traffic, damaging property, rioting, and other forms of extreme protest behaviours can reduce popular support for social movements, a new study concludes. The study, Extreme Protest Tactics Reduce Popular Support For Social…
University Held ‘Vagina Monologues’ Inside a Church
From The College Fix: Student groups at Plymouth State University, which hosted a six-week series exploring “the intersections of sexuality and spirituality,” are now offering the “Vagina Monologues” presented inside a church. As part of…
Power Poses Shortcircuited
Some theories are so stupid that you can tell at the outset that elites will embrace them: Amy Cuddy’s thesis of “power poses” is one of these. Launched in an academic paper in 2010, the…
College Student Suspended after Recording Professor’s Anti-Trump Rant
The controversy began when a video clip went viral on the internet, where an Orange Coast College professor named Olga Perez Stable Cox went on an anti-Trump rant and said that Trump’s election was an…
LA Times Investigates ‘Black Bloc’ Anti-Milo Rioters, but Cal-Berkeley Won’t
Imagine if the speaker whose event got canceled was the likes of Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards or communist Angela Davis? Food for thought. From The College Fix: A reporter for the Los Angeles Times managed to pull…
Virginia High School in Hot Water over Politically Correct Signs
From The Daily Caller: An Arlington County School Board member stood by allowing teachers to post politically-suggestive messages in classrooms during a Wednesday interview on a Washington-based radio station. The signs, posted by teachers, were…
Book Review
Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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