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October 13, 2009

Peace Plus One

Ashley Thorne

Culture watch: the three-finger salute symbolizes the three pillars of sustainability - it's "peace plus one"!

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October 10, 2009

Politicizing the NEH

Peter Wood

The new chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities wants to correct Americans' "disrespectful" attitude towards Muslim culture. He is also annoyed at culture warriors and excitable peop......

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October 9, 2009

Sustainapedia

Ashley Thorne

NAS has posted an encyclopedia of the key names, terms, and organizations in the sector of sustainability activism aimed specifically at re-centering elementary and higher education around sust......

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October 9, 2009

Discriminate? Us? How Quickly Duke Forgets

Ashley Thorne

Mark Bauerlein has an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education today in which he shows how illegitimate the academic left's denials  of "liberal-bias-in-higher-education" can......

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October 9, 2009

Brown Hires Radical Professor

stephenbeale

Brown University this fall added Chinua Achebe to the faculty of its Africana Studies Department. Achebe is a prominent postcolonial writer from Nigeria who has called Joseph Conrad a "bloody racist......

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