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Over the weekend, my wife and I were walking through a mall together for the first time in years. We went into a store called "Spencer's" for old-time sake … it used to be the place all of the pre-teens went to back in the day. Just
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Given events over the past few months, it is easy to characterize men as evil, dangerous — the enemy of women. It is easy to think that all men are exemplified by people like Harvey Weinstein and Larry Nassar, who have committed evil acts and ought to be condemned. It is
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Freedom House puts out an index rating countries as free or partly free or not free based on whether their citizens have certain rights most Americans consider fundamental. If Freedom House expanded the list to colleges, where would Harvard rank?
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Cry out full-throated and unsparingly, Lift up your voice like a trumpet blast …" — Isaiah 58:1a
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Two U.S. senators plan to revise the federal Higher Education Act to make it ready for re-authorization. Should we find that reassuring? The senators, Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee) and Patti Murray (D-Washington), don't tell us who will be writing or paying for the drafting of this mammoth bill
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State officials need to fix whatever led to the Massachusetts State Police scandals TrooperGate and LeighaGate – and do it publicly. The forced retirements of the two top State Police officials in November and of two more high-ranking officers this week are not enough.
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Harvard University had only just announced its next president before he came under attack — not for anything he did, but for who he is. That is, in the eyes of his critics, at least, a "white male."
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Fashionable circles like to see looming ahead of us the end of democracy. Pundits stoke this idea, often because their candidate didn't win office, and they were the ruling elites. The rumbling goes on because progressive ideas aren't the only ones afloat. Freedom House publishes an
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