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June 7, 2021

Where Does the University Go from Here?

Daniel Asia

A review of "A Time to Build: From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream" by Yuval Levin.

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June 7, 2021

Liberalism: How We Got Here

Eugene R. Dattel

A review of "The Crisis of Liberalism: The Prelude to Trump" by Fred Siegel.

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June 7, 2021

How to Become Educated

David Randall

A review of "How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education" by Scott Newstok.

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April 19, 2021

Critical Race Theory and the Will to Power

Bruce P. Frohnen

A review of "1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project" by NAS President Peter W. Wood.

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April 19, 2021

Multiculturalism: Democracy by the Experts

Timothy W. Burns

A review of "Multiculturalism in Canada: Constructing a Model Multiculture with Multicultural Values" by Hugh Donald Forbes.

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February 25, 2021

Down from Liberalism

Michael Walsh

A review of Helen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsay's "Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity–and Why This Harms Everybody.......

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February 25, 2021

Bernard Bailyn: An Historian to Learn From

Robert L. Paquette

A review of Bernard Bailyn's "Illuminating History: A Retrospective of Seven Decades."

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February 25, 2021

We’re All Progressives Now

Sidney M. Milkis

A review of Bradley C.S. Watson's "Progressivism: The Strange Career of a Radical Idea."

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February 25, 2021

Not Your Father’s Campus Anymore

Gorman Beauchamp

A review of Robert Boyers' "The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies."

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February 25, 2021

That’s Right, I Said It!

Glynn Custred

A review of Mark Levin's "Unfreedom of the Press."

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