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July 6, 2011

The Real Purpose of Education

David Clemens

Good teaching should result “in a lighting of those lamps in the mind and in the heart that shall eventually show the Way, the Truth, and the Life.”

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July 5, 2011

Daniel Pipes Quotes AQ Author Andrew Bieszad on NRO

Ashley Thorne

In a National Review Online article describing the decline of Middle East Studies in American higher education, Daniel Pipes quotes from Andrew Bieszad's recent article, "Islamo-Correctness at H......

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July 5, 2011

More On Sixth Circuit MCI Ruling

Glenn Ricketts

Competitive Enterprise Institute attorney Hans Bader has some interesting commentary on last week's Sixth Circuit ruling invalidating Michigan's voter-approved Civil Rights Initiative. A div......

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July 5, 2011

Sometimes a Student Really Takes to Reading

George Leef

In this Pope Center piece, David Clemens writes about that wonderful occurrence -- finding out that a student has been deeply affected by course material and has awakened to the joy of serious readi......

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July 5, 2011

Academic Freedom Update: Widener Prof Sues Two Students and Law School

Ashley Thorne

Lawrence Connell sues "student radicals who want me punished for expressing politically incorrect thoughts in an unabashedly liberal campus."

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