Moral Vacuity In the Call For An Academic Boycott against Israel

Yet another group of academics — this time in the United States – has launched an academic boycott of Israel, claiming that professors who have not publicly denounced the Israeli government are complicit in oppression.

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Is Gaza’s Islamic University an Educational Institution CUPE Ought to be Defending?

The Canadian Union of Public Employees is the latest group to call for a ban of Israeli academics.

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When Alternate Theories Don’t Make For A Good Curriculum

Because across the country school boards and legislatures have mounted aggressive efforts to introduce intelligent design as a co-equal, alternate theory to evolution in public school science classes.

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Answering Back To Israel’s Campus Critics

Harvard Professor J. Lorand Matory claims that he is seeking a greater civility on campus through reasoned academic discourse, but his real intention seems to be to create that civility by having only his side of the discussion be heard.

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A Misguided and Impractical Ordinance to Reign in Student Antics

The Boston Zoning Commission has passed a new ordinance which will make it illegal for landlords to rent to more than four students in a single rental unit.

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The ‘Diversity’ of Ideas Lie at UC Davis

In the strange logic of UC Davis, Lawrence Summers' views are "appalling" and worthy of censorship, while Norman Finkelstein and Ward Churchill represent "diversity."

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Boycott Whom Again?

The group of 130 British physicians calling for a boycott of Israel Medical Association were unusually silent last week as their heroes in the struggle for self-determination in “occupied Palestine” seemed to self-destruct in wanton, seething anarchy.

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A Focused Deterrence Strategy For Gun Violence

Experts such as James Q. Wilson have noted that the inclination for young people to join gangs is understandable as a part of inner city sociopathy, and that efforts to suppress the existence of gangs is fruitless.

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Where The Iraq Study Group Had It All Wrong

The accusations that the creation of the State of Israel led to the eradication and dispossession of a Palestinian ‘nation,’ and that Israel continues to obstruct and deny the Palestinian’s right of self-determination, are spurious at best.

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The Uneasy Relationship Between Money and Morals in Book Publishing

Where a Maxwell Perkins could nurture, cajole, develop, and protect his stable of writers, publishers today have been forced to go in directions earlier editors and publishers might have thought untenable and inappropriate.

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Indoctrination High: Bringing Anti-Israel Propaganda to High School

Johnny can't read, but at least he'll know who the oppressor is, thanks to the Wheels of Justice traveling bus tour.

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Politics, Gender, and Race: Lawrence Summers and the Death of Academic Discourse

According to this author, if Harvard is to survive Summers’ departure, real discourse and freedom of inquiry will have to be encouraged and welcomed, not stifled in the name of political correctness.

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Draw Unto Others: The Muslim World’s Own Cartoon Offenses

For decades the Arab press has used the cartoon to debase and dehumanize Jews and the State of Israel.

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Harvard’s Challenge: Accepting Donations With Ethical Strings Attached

Harvard University has agreed to accept a $20 million gift from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a donor who is a member of the ruling family of a repressive, totalitarian, sexist theocracy.

For the Ninth Circuit Court God Should Be Out of the Schools, But Sex Surveys Can Be In

The Ninth Circuit has determined that public schools are free to provide education on sexual matters to children, with or without the consent and participation of parents.

Profits With Principles: Seven Strategies for Delivering Value With Values

According to Profits with Principles, companies concerned with both profit making and providing social benefits — creating value and values — outperform businesses that focus exclusively on financial gains.

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Campus Diversity & the Failure of Good Intentions

The New York Civil Rights Coalition recently concluded that the color-conscious policies of many colleges and universities actually “support a new form of ethnic and racial segregation in higher education.”

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Putting the Private Sector to Work in Providing Housing For The Poor

A close look at the Baltic (named after the Monopoly game's low cost property), a model of how government can help ease, rather than constrict, affordable housing creation by helping the private sector do the right thing.

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Al Sharpton’s ‘Victimology Hustle’

A close examination of Al Sharpton’s history of race or “victimologist” hustling.

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