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Last week, officials ordered several public universities in Florida to examine courses for "antisemitism or anti-Israeli bias," reported The Chronicle. The directive, issued on Friday, ordered the leaders of 12 public universities in the State University System of Florida to provide the system's board of governors with a list of "related instructional materials" for any course whose description or syllabus contains the keywords Israel, Israeli, Palestine, Palestinian, Middle East, Zionism, Zionist, Judaism, Jewish, and Jews. In a follow-up email sent later that day, the system's chancellor, Ra...
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Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance has been in the news for an old clip of him talking about how the tax code should punish adults without kids. While Vance's proposal probably aims to address demographic concerns, it represents a misguided approach that contradicts fundamental principles of economic freedom and fairness. And you know what? That's precisely what our tax code already does, in this case and many others. Using the tax code to "reward" parents and "punish" nonparents is at odds with the idea of a neutral, efficient tax system. In an ideal and fair world, the tax base ...
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Seven out of 10 college students say that speech can be just as damaging as physical violence, according to a new survey from the Knight Foundation, a journalism and free speech nonprofit. The survey, which polled more than 1,600 college students, also found that since 2016, college students' faith in the security of free speech rights has declined. "2024 marks a crisis for free speech on college campuses as international conflicts, like the war in Gaza, and domestic strife come to a head, bringing urgent political and personal issues to center stage," the report states. "With campuses crackin...
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Ted and Courtney Balaker are the team behind the new documentary The Coddling of the American Mind. Based on the 2018 best-selling book by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff, the film follows a series of students as they navigate life on today's highly charged college campuses. I spoke with Courtney and Ted, who started his video career as one of the first hires at Reason TV, about the Gen Z mental health crisis, free speech, DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) programs, the oppressor-victim worldview, and why they chose to host the film on the innovative platform Substack rather than a more...
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Saying the link between height and success is significant, the School of Management and Business at Vietnam National University in Hanoi said that this year, female students less than 1.58 meters tall (5'2″) and male students less than 1.65 meters (5'3″) would not be allowed to enroll. The average height for a Vietnamese woman is 1.56 meters (5'1″), and the average height for a Vietnamese man is 1.68 meters (5'6″). Following a public outcry over the new requirements, the Ministry of Education told the university to reconsider them. The school removed the height requirements for all of its prog...
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Police in New Hampshire are now investigating the possibility that the death of a Dartmouth College student over the weekend may have been the result of alcohol-fueled hazing after receiving tips from the public. Dartmouth sophomore Won Jang, 20, from Middletown, Del., was last seen around 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 6, while attending an "informal social gathering" at docks near the Dartmouth boathouse on the Connecticut River, according to New Hampshire Fish and Game. The agency was notified that Jang was missing at around 4 p.m. Sunday, and joined the Hanover Police Department and the Hanov...
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Police in New Hampshire are now investigating the possibility that the death of a Dartmouth College student over the weekend may have been the result of alcohol-fueled hazing after receiving tips from the public. Dartmouth sophomore Won Jang, 20, from Middletown, Del., was last seen around 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 6, while attending an "informal social gathering" at docks near the Dartmouth boathouse on the Connecticut River, according to New Hampshire Fish and Game. The agency was notified that Jang was missing at around 4 p.m. Sunday, and joined the Hanover Police Department and the Hanov...
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Police in New Hampshire are now investigating the possibility that the death of a Dartmouth College student over the weekend may have been the result of alcohol-fueled hazing after receiving tips from the public. Dartmouth sophomore Won Jang, 20, from Middletown, Del., was last seen around 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 6, while attending an "informal social gathering" at docks near the Dartmouth boathouse on the Connecticut River, according to New Hampshire Fish and Game. The agency was notified that Jang was missing at around 4 p.m. Sunday, and joined the Hanover Police Department and the Hanov...
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Since Hamas' attack on Israel last October and the war in Gaza that followed, college campuses across the nation have been embroiled in a series of pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protests. In the spring, more than 100 of these protests turned into encampments. At several colleges, tent encampments devolved into spurts of violence and vandalism, and occasional clashes with police brought in to break them up. As the school year drew to a close, scenes of chaos at colleges such as Columbia and UCLA commanded national headlines. The situation became even more gripping when university administrators ...
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During a podcast appearance last week, former President Donald Trump made an uncharacteristic argument. "What I will do, is you graduate from a college, I think you should get automatically, as part of your diploma, a green card to be able to stay in this country," he said, adding that he would even include graduates of junior colleges. A Trump campaign spokesperson quickly tempered that proposal, promising an "aggressive vetting process" that would "exclude all communists, radical Islamists, Hamas supporters, America haters and public charges." The green card offer would only apply to college...
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