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An Ideology Leading to Murder

The core tenet of repressive academic safetyism—that officially designated student victim groups are dangerously vulnerable to meanie “haters”—is laughably delusional. There have been few more pampered and richly endowed individuals than early twenty-first century American students. Yet they are encouraged to think of themselves as “unsafe” by the very adults who should be leading them toward a grounded understanding of reality. And that is because the adults on campus are even more invested than students in maintaining the hegemony of leftism—a belief system enabled in part by the conceits of fragility and dangerous “haters.”

Read all of Heather Mac Donald's essay in City Journal.

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Je Suis Charlie

 The Free Press on the larger significance of the murder of Charlie Kirk.

We fear his assassination represents a watershed moment for free expression in this country. We worry that his murder will have a profound chilling effect—that people will shy away from open discussion, that they will avoid honest debate, and that they will turn away from sticking their neck out for fear that engaging with their fellow citizens might mean an engraved bullet will be meant for them.

We must not let that happen.

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Life Is Not a Computer Game

 Douglas Murray writing in the New York Post. An excerpt:

You might say that anybody could have done that.

But anybody didn’t, and anybody doesn’t.

And in any case, Charlie Kirk was not just anybody.

He didn’t just give people a platform and debate his ideas and theirs.

He listened.

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