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How about a little one-on-one, full court press?

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Do you love America? If so, how much? Do you wear an American flag on your lapel (and look askance on those who don’t)? Do you drive only American cars? Do you prefer home-style fries to French fries because, well, isn’t it obvious? Do you support American military operations because to do otherwise would undermine the efforts of those brave men and women who keep us free? Do you take every opportunity to express your belief that America is the best country in the history of the world?

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FPR readers are invited to attend the coming Ciceronian Society Conference at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, March 29-31. All attendance to observe the panels is free of charge. Featured speakers include John Medaille, Donald Livingston, Jeff Taylor, James Matthew Wilson, Thaddeus Kozinski, Mark Signorelli, Jerry Salyer, Clark Carlton, Ryan Holston, Luke Philip Plotica, D.J. White, Peter Haworth, and many others.

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David Barash recounts how he turned down proferred money from a logging company, thereby retaining his ethical purity but quite possibly doing harm to the natural world.

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Throughout the years of defending its policy, the university did not tell the Democratic club it must be led by a Republican, or the vegetarian club that it must be led by a meat-eater, but it did tell Christian groups that they must allow themselves to be led by atheists.

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The criminal trial of Dharun Ravio commanded national attention and focus on our controversial hate-crime laws. The issue was whether Ravi spied on his Rutgers roommate, Tyler Clementi, and whether he spied because of prejudice against homosexuals generally and against his gay roommate in particular. Ravi's conviction last Friday on the most serious charge against him, "bias intimidation," carries with it a possible sentence of ten years in prison.

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In a wonderful article published here at FPR a few weeks ago, Jason Peters argued that a proper education ought to provoke a kind of spiritual or intellectual crisis among its students.  If I could choose one author who best challenges a young mind in this way, it would have to be Edmund Burke.

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Some two-thirds of America's college students are taught by adjuncts, and now the battle is on over whether these low-paid, low-status workers should be unionized.

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Classics are called such for a reason. They endure. Quite by accident frequently, for as any condemned intellectual knows, the most marketable idea prevails within the lifetime of the average intellectual, regardless of merit. Marketability does not always coincide with good sense; quite the contrary. Rub against the grain and you will harvest splinters big and small in order to distract from the prevailing poverty of your sanctimonious existence.

Once in a great while, however, a horse surprises and the race arrives at a salubrious conclusion enjoyed by all. Such is the standing of the redoubtable Washington Irving, one of the first pestiferous writers of the young republic to receive wide acclaim in the bosom of our beginnings, for very good reason.

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At the risk of adding to the monolith of analysis about Mitt Romney’s political struggles in the GOP primaries, I will posit the thesis (more as a question to be further considered) that one of his political problems entails his… Related posts: Pomo’s vs. Fropo’s Revisited I will admit that I did not keep up with... The Death of bin Laden: On Violence and Civil Religion Holland, MI.… Around 11:00 Sunday night I received a text... When What We Say in Private Goes Public All religious groups have their internecine squabbles and the places...

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