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October 31, 2023

Turning Our Universities Against Barbarism

David Randall

Our universities pose a terrible challenge to America. It is time to teach Western civilization because to convey that civilization is to teach our children not to embrace barbarism. It is to tea......

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October 31, 2023

The Academic Roots of Hamas's Terror

Bruce Gilley

An intellectual history of Hamas from 1988 to the present. How have major ideologies shaped this terrorist organization, and what is its prevalence on campus?

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October 26, 2023

A Reckoning: How to Respond to Those Who Temporize with Terrorists

Peter Wood

The leaders of higher education in the United States must speak forthrightly in defense of civilization. If they don’t, then we must as a public lawfully liberate our campuses from foolish solid......

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October 26, 2023

Studies Departments Must Ditch Anti-Semitism

David Randall

Columbia’s illness is far deeper than one intemperate professor. Its institutions and culture should be reformed to root out every administrative tolerance for or complicity in Jew-hatred.

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October 26, 2023

Letter: Comment on Maine Social Studies Standards

Peter Wood and David Randall

The Draft Standards does a great disservice to the citizens, students, and teachers of Maine as it consists largely of education school jargon, heavily inflected by radical polemic.

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