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Mark Bauerlein, like, hopes to see declarative sentences once again, um, not sound like questions?

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Recently I was asked to participate in a symposium on Michael Berube’s “The Left At War” for the journal “Politics and Culture.”  I took the author to be scolding those he calls the “Manichean Left” because they threatened the ability of the Left to govern in what might be a dawning Progressive age.  I took the opportunity to reflect on whether the Left can govern in the United States.

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The University of Kentucky has paid $125,000 to a professor who convincingly accused it of denying him a position because of his Christian religious beliefs. As my previous post indicated, one member of the committee reviewing Martin Gaskell's application urged the University to reject his candidacy because he was "potentially evangelical."

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Marc Bousquet describes a showdown between a federal court and a federal agency over faculty collective bargaining.

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When Minding the Campus asked me if I would write something about two Canadian engineering professors walking out of class to protest rude and disruptive students in their classrooms, I happily obliged. What harm, I told myself, could there be, after so many years of avoidance, to re-visit this issue? After all, it has been some 13 years after I wrote Generation X Goes to College: An Eye-Opening Account of Teaching in Postmodern America, about my experiences leaving daily journalism to teach college in the early 1990's...

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People like to remember Rev. King for his instrumental work in achieving racial justice, but forget that in his time, Rev. King was considered a radical by many.

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Yes, humor does happen at the Supreme Court.

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Fortunately America still gives birth to her Framers and they come with every generation.

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At the beginning of a new year, there is a valuable opportunity for reflection on the past year and what it means for the future.  While 2010 was certainly not without its major victories for free speech, it also suffered some challenges.    Here’s a quick look back at developments in ADF’s academic freedom cases in 2010 and what they mean for 2011:

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I come from a family of educators.  My mother was a school teacher.  My father was a school bursar. Teaching is not just my occupation but my passion. I am completing my forty-sixth year as a university professor, and I can truly say that last semester was one of the most exciting three months of teaching I have ever had.

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