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Commentary: Florida students should stage boycott to save African American course

The Florida Department of Education is right. The new Advanced Placement course in African American studies probably violates the state’s Stop W.O.K.E. Act, which restricts what schools can teach about race.

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Commentary: US News & World Report university rankings spur a revolt. What we need are more meaningful evaluations

In the beginning, God created the heavens, the earth and American higher education. We lived in a bucolic state of nature until an evil serpent, U.S. News & World Report, tempted us to partake of the Tree of Knowledge: namely, college rankings. A fall from grace ensued.

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: One way of stemming the tide of book bans? Allow for compromise

In November 2020, Washington held the nation’s first-ever state referendum on sex education. By a nearly 60% to 40% plurality, voters in the Evergreen State approved a set of guidelines that include information about contraception, LGBTQ identities and sexual consent. But the guidelines also allow parents to opt out of…

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Salman Rushdie and the defense of hate speech

“Professor, why should we allow hate speech?”

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Commentary: Baseball, vaccines and the triumph of selfishness

In April 1909, New York Highlanders first baseman Hal Chase was hospitalized with smallpox near the team’s spring training site in Georgia. The rest of the squad — which would be renamed the Yankees in 1913 — took an overnight train to Richmond, Virginia, where the Highlanders were scheduled to…

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: The Supreme Court gets an F in history for its rationales in abortion, gun rulings

It happens at least once a semester. My students and I will be discussing a contested political issue — say, affirmative action or capital punishment — and someone will ask, “Professor, what does history say about it?”

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