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opinion
Despicable Behavior of Today’s Academicians
The Michigan State University administration pressured professor Stephen Hsu to resign from his position as vice president of research and innovation because he touted research that found police are not more likely to shoot black Americans. The study found: “The race of a police officer did not predict the race of the citizen shot. In… -
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How Is the Left of the ’60s Different From the Left of Today?
How do the radical movements of today—Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and others—compare with their counterparts of the 1960s, such as the Black Panthers and the Weather Underground? What would the leftists of the ’60s say about the rioting that followed the death of George Floyd, the toppling of disfavored statues, and efforts today to “defund… -
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Black Leaders Rally to Save DC’s Lincoln Park Statue
Prominent African American leaders and others are rallying around a statue in Washington, D.C., depicting President Abraham Lincoln freeing a slave. “We do not believe that America is so systematically racist that we should divide ourselves now and start having discussions with domestic terrorists about which statues stand and which statues fall,” Star Parker, president… -
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In 3 Charts, What to Know About Florida’s COVID-19 Surge
A lot has happened in Florida in the two weeks since I last analyzed its COVID-19 numbers. Unfortunately, not much of it is good. Florida has reported almost as many cases among its residents over the past two weeks as it did over the previous three and a half months. The newly infected population has… -
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New York Times Editor Quits Over Newspaper’s Internal ‘Orthodoxy’
The New York Times hired Bari Weiss as an opinion writer and editor to help readers gain a wider perspective after President Donald Trump’s surprise election in 2016. Now, Weiss has resigned. In a lengthy letter Tuesday to the Times’ publisher, posted on her personal website, she says she was bullied and run out of… -
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Soros Foundation Pledges $220 Million Toward Racial Equality
The Open Society Foundations, the philanthropic group founded by George Soros, announced Monday that it would pledge $220 million toward initiatives focusing on racial equality in the United States. The investment will transform the efforts of political and civil rights groups across the country and comes as protests continue nationwide over the death of George Floyd while… -
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Britain Bans a Chinese Tech Giant From Building Out 5G Technology
Britain will ban Huawei from deploying equipment designed to build out the country’s fifth generation mobile service, delivering a blow to the Chinese tech giant. Britain Digital and Media Minister Oliver Dowden announced the decision Tuesday in the House of Commons, noting that the move will take effect in January. Unplugging from Huawei will likely… -
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Could Roger Stone Have a Conversion Experience Like Charles Colson?
President Donald Trump’s decision to commute the prison sentence of his longtime friend and political adviser Roger Stone just days before Stone was to begin a 40-month prison sentence—he and the president say he was falsely accused–reminded me of another man who was as loyal to his president and who did go to prison. Charles… -
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Cancel Culture Tries to Cow Goya Foods’ Bob Unanue
It looks like Bob Unanue, the CEO of Goya Foods Inc., may be the first American corporate leader to stand up to cancel culture and tell the mob he’s not scared. But he has fulfilled an even more important role. The farcical attempt by liberal politicians and celebrities to boycott Goya products because Unanue visited… -
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What Does ‘Back to School’ Mean in the Time of COVID-19?
What could “back to school” look like during the first fall of the COVID-19 pandemic, and what should it look like? What about an “exclusively virtual” education experience? What are wise precautions to take and what is unrealistic? Lindsey Burke, who directs The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy and is the think tank’s Will Skillman… -
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Why Some Revolutions Fail
Soon after the start of the French Revolution on July 14, 1789, the English statesman Edmund Burke saw storm clouds on the horizon. Under the banner of “liberty, equality, and fraternity,” the French revolutionaries not only attacked the dreaded Bastille prison in Paris. They assaulted the most important historic institutions in France: the monarchy, the… -
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The Fathers of Communism Were Racist
There are plenty of good reasons to abandon the teachings of Karl Marx. Chief among them is how Marx’s noxious communist ideology has led to suffering and death on a mass scale and has been the ideology at the heart of some of the most brutal and inhumane dictatorships of the 20th and 21st centuries…. -
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Goya Outrage Shows Cancel Culture Out of Control
It was the kind of program that, ordinarily, liberals would cheer. To hear them tell it, expanding the opportunities for minorities has always been their party’s idea. But when President Donald Trump took a stab at it, announcing a business and educational project aimed directly at Hispanic people, the left wasn’t about to cut him… -
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GOP Lawmakers Urge Attorney General to Defend St. Louis Couple’s Gun Rights After Firearm Confiscation
GOP lawmakers wrote a letter to Attorney General William Barr Friday, urging the protection of the firearm rights of the St. Louis couple that saw their guns confiscated after they went viral for defending their home against demonstrators, according to reports. Mark and Patricia McCloskey were seen in a video brandishing a M16A2-style rifle and small… -
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Dear Politicians: Please Stop Allowing Vandals to Deface America’s Statues
The American Constitutional Rights Union just began a petition to ask America’s policymakers to put an end to the toppling and defacing of the nation’s monuments. Statues of George Washington, Christopher Columbus, and Albert Pike are among those vandalized since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Lori Roman, president of the American Constitutional Rights… -
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NFL Again Fumbles Opportunity to Unite America
The National Football League once again is fumbling away an opportunity to unite America. This is the result we could have expected, given the NFL’s playbook over the past few years. The NFL’s decision to play what is known as the black national anthem—“Lift Every Voice and Sing”—before every Week 1 game beginning Sept. 10 seems poised… -
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Liam Fox’s Case for Free and Open Trade
The United Kingdom on Wednesday nominated Liam Fox, former U.K. secretary of state for international trade, to be the next director-general of the World Trade Organization. Accepting his nomination, Fox, a passionate advocate of free trade and a pro-Washington candidate, underscored his belief “that if we want to keep the WTO relevant and vibrant our… -
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Supreme Court to Hear Case of Georgia Students Denied First Amendment Rights
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving two former Georgia college students who were prevented from sharing their faith on their school campus. “The bottom line is this: Government officials must be held responsible for enacting and enforcing policies that trample students’ constitutionally protected freedoms,” John Bursch, senior counsel and vice president… -
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Why Economic Freedom Is Ethical, Effective Alternative to Coercive Collectivism
“Under communism, individuals are merely a means to be used toward the achievement of the ends of the collective nation-state. Thus, individuals can be easily sacrificed for the nation-state’s goals.” So said national security adviser Robert O’Brien in a major policy speech June 24 to a group of business executives at the Arizona Commerce Authority,… -
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Why In-Person Schooling Would Be One of the Safest Activities to Reopen
Most students around the country haven’t been to school since March, when large parts of the country began to lock down in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the data increasingly suggests that reopening schools entails the least risks and should be a goal of every level of government. The early hope was that the…