Bill Flanigen |

I don’t want our site to become some sort of clearinghouse for all things JuicyCampus, but I have one more thought on the forum that I think is worth sharing. Actually, it’s more of a “strategy.” Those of us interested in staunching the flow of good morality out of the student body at Our...
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For those that don’t know, we here at the GW Patriot are often more critical than other students of our University. If we err (and we do err often), we err on the side of skepticism about both the motives and the actions of the University administration and the Student Association. Sometimes, though, I...
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..”on dead tree,” as the folks over at National Review would say, looks wonderful. I picked up a copy at the Marvin Center on my way to work this morning. I’m very impressed. Congratulations to everybody that had a hand in it! EDIT: “Petty and relatively juvenile pupae of bigoted, right wing propaganda.” Tee...
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Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.- Arthur Schlesinger File this in the “Holy Crap, How Could I Possibly Have Missed This News” category. All self-respecting students of history know who Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., is, and...
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Everybody’s favorite ex-aide to Vice President Cheney will be heading up the river. The New York Times online article on the subject (not the article linked above) had a very interesting interpretation of the case as a clash between distinctive styles of litigation (rational versus emotional, fact-based versus intuition-based). All things considered, the trial...
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…through the classic medium of the ’80s pop ballad. “Band-Aid” ain’t got nothin’ on this. Look out for the sweet guitar solo at 3:07. (Hat tip: The Reason Hit & Run Blog)
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English writer Brendan O’Neill on the new big trend in international relations. His criticisms of the culture of “genocide-mongering” are great, but I would add one. The more we use the G-word, the less it actually means. Remember the combo-meal sizes at McBurger Bell-fil-A? They used to be small, medium, and large. Now, you...
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I’m back from spending a couple of hours at CPAC 2007, and I’m going to play a one-sided game of Rochambeau with the next person who asks me “would you like to learn about Senator Brownback?” Seriously, in terms of its youth organization at CPAC, no one could hold a candle to the B-man....
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Michael Dorf, a Professor at Columbia Law School, wrote this review of the recent Boumediene v. Bush decision in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, over which there was a bit of yammering here a few days ago. In case you’re expecting more libertarian vitriole from me, don’t worry: the article was a balanced...
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This article from TCS Daily is worth a gander. The gist: some private school teachers in Seattle tried to use legos to deliver an impromptu lesson in social justice. No surprise here: the teachers claimed to believe that “class-based, Capitalistic society” is “unjust and oppressive.” When a “legotown” project that the students had been...
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