Professor Robert Weissberg has an excellent essay on Minding the Campus in which he examines what he calls "hate facts." Hate facts are truths that must not be spoken among the intelligentsia any more because doing so could offend some "protected" group. Academics (and anyone else who wants to survive in the public realm) learn to steer a safe course away from hate facts.
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Ohio Northern University gnaws its teeth with an appetite for vindictive lawfare....
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We have undermined the leftist status quo in higher education for decades with the persistence of Morlocks. You really should be more alarmed about us than you are. Not that I’m going......
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The dark secret of anti-Semitism is that ignorance alone cannot explain it away or absolve those who adhere to it. If anything, the most vivid episodes of history’s anti-Semitism have......
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What does it mean to be Latino? Are only Latin American people Latino, or does the term apply to anyone whose language derived from Latin?...
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A reader asks, "If Elohim refers to multiple 'gods,' then Yhwh Elohim really means Lord of Gods...the one of many, right?" A Hebrew expert answers....
