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Portland's Northwest Film Center pulls film from summer drive-in schedule after critics say it promotes "school-to-prison pipeline."
"The idea that wrongheaded, dangerous, heretical, and blasphemous ideas should be not only allowed but protected is preposterous," says Rauch. And yet, it's "the single most successful social principle ever invented."
In woke corporate America, there's no statute of limitations on wrongthink.
When a university president threatens a professor with consequences for writing an article, free expression loses out.
The Souls of Yellow Folk author says a new "elite consensus" fixated on racial outrage is forming and may destroy our ability to function.
Don't lock down expression along with so much else of American society.
"We understand that the context in which this phrase was used resulted in a very painful trigger for many of you."
The heterodox hosts of the popular Blocked and Reported podcast talk about surviving internet outrage, the roots of speech repression, and the power of direct financial support from fans.
The comedian expresses rage over police brutality while offering optimism for a better world.
"Humankind" instead of "mankind," "salesperson" instead of "salesman," and so on
The Mat-Su School Board evidently doesn't understand the purpose of a school.
"I would rather be remembered for writing something that was...offensive, than to be forgotten for writing something bloodless."
"Say what you will about ISIS but at least they're not Islamophobic." Journalist Andrew Doyle has created the ultimate parody account.
The university's litmus test is a lawsuit waiting to happen.
"It's a disservice to undergrads," said one student.
"You're in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world."
Larry Shue's The Foreigner has KKK villains. Administrators think students can't handle that.
A New York Times reporter says "the situation was way more complicated than it first appeared." No, it wasn't.
"Despite its usage by academics and cultural influencers, 98% of Latinos prefer other terms to describe their ethnicity."
The author of the provocative intellectual memoir The Problem with Everything takes on fourth-wave feminism and celebrates Gen X's "toughness."
"Antifa and the Far Right," he adds, are "good for nothing."
In a new book, Peter Boghossian, one of the perpetrators of the "grievance studies" hoax, outlines how ideological opponents can reach common ground.
Carson King is the latest victim of a cancel culture that's out of control.
Conservatives deploy state power to go after speech they don't like.
Right-wing cancel culture comes for Jamie Riley, who dared to criticize the American flag.
He was hired to bring ideological diversity to The Atlantic and fired days later for being heterodox. He's not a fan of Donald Trump but finds his critics just as bad.
The progressive bastion is trying to make its laws more inclusive, semantically at least.
"The cost of not doing this is the harm done to other Googlers every time they encounter these terms," says the company's diversity and inclusion team.
Reason's Robby Soave on his new book, Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump
Some students at the University of the Arts want the firebrand feminist fired. Where did they get the idea they should be picking faculty?
The Columbia University linguist discusses the Jussie Smollett hoax, Donald Trump, and "antiracism" as a new secular religion.
Columbia linguist John McWhorter on the Jussie Smollett hoax, Donald Trump, and "antiracism" as a new secular religion.
In Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society, Nicholas Christakis says natural selection "prewires" us for peaceful co-existence.
To paraphrase Ray Bradbury, social media is full of people running around with lit matches.
The #MeToo-ed comedian jokes about Parkland kids and transgender pronouns in leaked footage of his new routines.
Modern leftist activism is mired in infighting between the most marginalized and their allies. Blame intersectionality.
Call it the "Baby, It's Cold Outside" backlash.
His 16-year-old blog posts are completely irrelevant to his testimony on the minimum wage.
Also: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez owns the cons while spouting policy B.S.
The reporters who made this nontroversy a story should be ashamed of themselves.
"I sincerely apologize to the LGBTQ community for my insensitive words from my past."
Watch the Oxford-style debate hosted by the Soho Forum.
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