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September 8, 2014

Revisiting the Classics: Joan and Peter by H. G. Wells

Adam Kissel

"Oswald’s concern—Wells’s, too—is that a fully unregulated marketplace of ideas, the open curriculum, if you will, has no telos."

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September 5, 2014

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome

Peter Wood

"[PTSS] provides an evidence-proof explanation that lifts away moral responsibility from those engaged in self-destructive, anti-social, and criminal behavior."

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August 29, 2014

Revisiting the Classics: Le Rouge et le Noir and French History

David Kaiser

Author and historian David Kaiser reviews Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir.

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August 28, 2014

Campus Energy Divestment: A Mistaken Legacy of the Anti-Apartheid Movement

Caleb Rossiter

"Divestment will again harm Africans, but this time to no good end." Dr. Caleb Rossiter, an adjunct professor at American University, weighs in.

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August 27, 2014

Why Conservatives are Up in Arms About the College Board's AP History Course

Peter Wood

"We are told that the course is the work of scholars whose only agenda was to create a good course. This doesn’t ring true."

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