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    The Media’s Intersectional Embrace of Anti-Semitism

    Imagine two sitting Republican congresspeople planned a trip to a foreign country in conjunction with a nongovernmental organization. Imagine that particular nongovernmental organization had a long history of Jew hatred: It had run a piece on its website quoting anti-Semitic myths about Jews imbibing Christian blood, republished a neo-Nazi article decrying the “Jew-controlled entertainment media,”…
    Ben Shapiro
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    How Actress Roxann Dawson Achieved Her Own ‘Breakthrough’ on Faith, Hollywood, and Adoption

    She has become an in-demand director of popular TV shows, including “This Is Us,” “The Americans,” and “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” Science fiction fans know her as Lt. B’Elanna Torres, the Klingon chief engineer during seven seasons of “Star Trek: Voyager.” But Roxann Dawson would rather be known as a mother raising two girls, including one…
    Josh Shepherd
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    De Blasio’s Diversity School Solution Ignores the Real Problem

    New York Mayor Bill de Blasio says that the city’s specialized high schools have a diversity problem. He’s joined by New York City Schools Chancellor Richard A. Carranza, educators, students, and community leaders who want to fix the diversity problem. I bet you can easily guess what they will do to “improve” the racial mix…
    Walter E. Williams
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    The Connection Between Hollywood and China

    Don’t be fooled by the Americans behind the camera. In today’s Hollywood, there’s one director—and that’s China. As important as U.S. audiences are, filmmakers know there’s a bigger one. And they’re willing to do anything they can to tap into it, even if it means becoming co-conspirators with one of the most evil censorship operations…
    Tony Perkins
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    A Guide to Colleges Committed to Ideological Diversity

    When you send your youngster off to college, you might not mind that they will have to walk on eggshells, respect taboos, snitch on fellow students for politically incorrect jokes, and learn to use ad hominem arguments as a means to attack ideas they find “disagreeable.” If that’s your preference, you can choose from a…
    Walter E. Williams
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    These Are the Hollywood Studios Threatening to Boycott Georgia Over Pro-Life Law

    A growing number of Hollywood studios said they will consider no longer conducting their filming business in Georgia should the heartbeat law take effect in 2020. The film industry adds about $9.5 billion to Georgia’s economy, but a variety of Hollywood studios said the heartbeat law violates Roe v. Wade and that they are considering…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Conservative Shareholders Push Facebook to Achieve ‘True Diversity’

    Facebook shareholders will have the opportunity Thursday to vote in favor of “true diversity” as the company holds its annual investor meeting. In the past few weeks, Apple, Amazon, and Twitter all have rejected the same shareholder resolution calling for the technology companies to seek “ideological diversity among their board members” that “contemplates differences in…
    Kevin Mooney
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    California Democrat Proposes Tax Incentives for Hollywood Productions That Leave Pro-Life States

    Turns out, California does believe in tax breaks—as long as they punish pro-lifers. One Democrat is so desperate to stop this new wave of abortion bans that she’s trying to offer incentives to any studios willing to move their productions out of places like Georgia and Alabama. Under her bill, California would sweeten the pot…
    Tony Perkins
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    A Sign of Hope From Hollywood

    This article contains spoilers for “Long Shot.” For most of its two hours, “Long Shot” follows the usual tropes for a movie centered on a political character. In the movie, which chronicles the love story between the elegant secretary of state and presidential contender Charlotte Fields (Charlize Theron) and the windbreaker-wearing, sloppy, stubborn journalist Fred…
    Katrina Trinko
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    Hollywood’s Hijack of the #MeToo Movement

    The powerful #MeToo movement was established to address real injustices suffered by women—and in some cases, although significantly less common, by men. This movement has undeniably affected societal norms and readjusted the fabric of American life. But such an important movement can be felled by its own excesses. In the wake of the #MeToo movement,…
    Armstrong Williams
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    We Hear You: Teaching Our Children, Taming Woke Moralism, Unpacking Green New Deal

    Editor's note: The left's blind appeal for young Americans stirs concern among The Daily Signal's audience. This week's mailbag leads off with such comments. Please write us at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: Regarding Daniel Davis’s commentary, students are just that—kids in school (“Pulling Young Americans Back From the Brink”). Many of them, the ones…
    Ken McIntyre
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    Podcast: What Woke Scientists Don’t Get About Masculinity

    Traditional masculinity is “harmful”—but don’t take it from us. That’s the new verdict of the American Psychological Association. We discuss the association’s new guidelines on counseling for men and boys, as well as the ideological shift behind it. Plus: President Donald Trump’s policy in Syria seems to be in flux. Last month, he announced U.S. troops…
    Katrina Trinko
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    The Woke Moral Panic of Today

    2018 was a chaotic year. It was a chaotic year for the markets, for domestic and international politics, and for social mores. 2019 promises more of the same, if the end of the prior year was any indicator. And it promises something else: the continued rise of the Wokescolds. Wokescolds are the new representatives of…
    Ben Shapiro
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    The Incoming Congress May Look Diverse, but Diversity of Thought Is Dwindling

    The headlines about the incoming 116th Congress scream that our representation has never been so “young,” so “blue,” so “diverse.” If diversity is about how people look, this Congress is very diverse. It’s a fact that there has never been so great a number of representatives who are women and people of color. There are…
    Star Parker
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    Hollywood’s One-Sided Narrative on ‘Conversion Therapy’

    Hollywood is presenting only one side of the debate over counseling for those who experience unwanted same-sex attraction, and it is seeking to silence those who can offer help to the struggling. Recent films like “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” and “Boy Erased”—both based on true stories—tell the stories of individuals who had negative or…
    Monica Burke
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    How ‘Diversity Ideology’ Killed the University and Is Infecting America

    When we think of institutions that shape our nation’s future, many often think of Congress and the White House, but it was John Maynard Keynes, the British economist, who said that a great deal of the change we see in politics and in society at large actually starts with professors, academics, people he called “scribblers…
    Daniel Davis
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    The Daily Signal Podcast: Heather Mac Donald Explains ‘The Diversity Delusion’ in Our Educational System

    Whoever controls education has an enormous impact on the direction of our country. That’s not exactly encouraging news, given the current state of higher education. Our guest today, Heather Mac Donald, has a new book called “The Diversity Delusion.” In that, she describes how a toxic turn in education is infecting society as a whole….
    Katrina Trinko
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    Diversity Ideology Killed the University. Now, It’s Choking Out Civilization.

    In 1903, during America’s darkest period of hate, W. E. B. Du Bois heartbreakingly affirmed his intellectual affinity with Western civilization. “I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas,” Du Bois wrote in “The Souls of Black Folk.” “I summon Aristotle and…
    Heather Mac Donald
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    Problematic Women: Hollywood Creates Fox News Movie—but What About Harvey Weinstein?

    ? Hollywood is producing a new movie detailing the downfall of former Fox News chief Roger Ailes—but where are the films on NBC’s Matt Lauer and Hollywood’s Harvey Weinstein? Former Olympic skier and gold medalist Bode Miller and his wife, Morgan, open up about losing their 19-month-old daughter in a tragic drowning accident, and Meghan…
    Bre Payton
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    Problematic Women: Sarah Palin Allegedly Duped by a Hollywood Actor Pretending to Be a Vet

    On this week’s episode of “Problematic Women,” we discuss the alleged duping of Sarah Palin by notorious prankster Sacha Baron Cohen, who was dressed up as veteran—wheelchair and all—to troll the former Alaska governor, and Tomi Lahren sounding off on Roe v. Wade and advising conservatives on how they should handle the issue of abortion….
    Kelsey Bolar
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