The Demise of Free Expression and Academic Freedom on College Campuses

Divinity School Oxford University

Universities are supposed to be places where you are exposed to a broad array of ideas, philosophies, and opinions. They should be institutions that allow students and faculty alike to engage with distinguished thinkers, scholars, researchers, scientists, innovators, business trailblazers, and even political leaders of all stripes. That’s what they …

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Welcome to the United States: The World’s Newest & Biggest Banana Republic

During my career as a foreign correspondent with the Chicago Tribune, I spent a lot of time working in third-world dictatorships and corrupt banana republics. I reported on rampant corruption by everyone from presidents and prime ministers on down to beat cops and military grunts. I witnessed elections being stolen …

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