Archive: December 03, 2004

Friday, December 3, 2004

1. TCS: France's Foreign Lesion, via Glenn (to read). About the Ivory Coast, which I've been mentioning lately.

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2. Boston Globe: A left-wing monopoly on campuses (via Glenn):

   Such one-party domination of any major institution is problematic in a nation where Republicans and Democrats can be found in roughly equal numbers. In academia it is scandalous. It strangles dissent, suppresses debate, and causes minorities to be discriminated against. It is certainly antithetical to good scholarship. "Any political position that dominates an institution without dissent," writes Mark Bauerlein, an English professor at Emory and director of research at the National Endowment for the Arts, "deteriorates into smugness, complacency, and blindness. ... Groupthink is an anti-intellectual condition."

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3. BusinessWeek: Putin's Biggest Blunder "His meddling in Ukraine's election could cost him dearly at home" (to finish reading). Via Amy.

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4. Jeff Harrell relays an iChat on Bush's agriculture secretary. "I'm glad to see he's getting over his obvious and embarrassing prejudice against white men." Heh. Via Amy

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