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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 | Daniel Davis
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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 | Heather Mac Donald
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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 | Daniel Davis
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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 | Kelsey Bolar
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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 | Bre Payton
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    Columnist Resigns After Her Site Removes Her Piece on Transgenderism and Hollywood
    Conservative columnist Daniella Greenbaum announced her resignation from Business Insider on Thursday after the news website deleted her opinion piece arguing that actress Scarlett Johansson should not be chastised for playing a transgender role. “I wish I could say I am surprised,” Greenbaum wrote in her resignation letter. “Unfortunately, what happened with my piece—the tarring of…
    Evie Fordham
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    The Disastrous Initiative to Hire Air Traffic Controllers Based on Diversity, Not Talent
    My column a fortnight ago, titled “Diversity and Inclusion Harm,” focused on the dumbing down of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics curricula to achieve a more pleasing mixture of participants in terms of race and sex. Heather Mac Donald, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, wrote about this in her article titled “How Identity…
    Walter E. Williams
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    Revamped Lawsuit Vows to Expose ‘Discrimination’ in Obama FAA’s Diversity Hiring
    A federal judge breathed new life into a lawsuit over the Federal Aviation Administration’s race-based hiring practices for air traffic controllers. The D.C. federal judge’s ruling not only allows plaintiff Andrew Brigida’s suit to move forward, but reignites the controversy over what critics call the Obama administration’s decision to put “diversity over safety” at the…
    Michael Bastasch
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