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May 18, 2010

Race-Based Graduation Celebrations...No Comment

Ashley Thorne

Universities such as Chico State are planning Asian, Latino, and Black graduation ceremonies.

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May 17, 2010

The Ivory Tower of Babel

David Clemens

The current issue of Academic Questions focuses on “sustainability,” that hollow abstraction around which coalesce feel-good connotations of moral superiority and environmental corr......

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May 17, 2010

Intellectuals, MIA in Defense of Islamist Victims

Candace de Russy

Michael Totten, a foreign correspondent, extols Paul Berman's new book, The Flight of the Intellectuals: While we haven't had a repeat of the apocalyptic terrorist attacks on September 11,......

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May 17, 2010

Sustainability News 5-17-10

Ashley Thorne

This week’s news includes a debate at small college over whether to sign the ACUPCC, a free sustainability issue of NAS’s journal Academic Questions, student eco-reps who work to change......

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