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Reckless Reparations Reckoning
Reckless Reparations Reckoning: The lesson from the $22 trillion record of Great Society compensatory payouts is that massive infusions of federal money are more apt to ensure social disruption and dislocation than alleviate them.
Victor Davis Hanson | Jan. 23, 2023
The Baleful Cargo of Woke Diversity Worship
The Baleful Cargo of Woke Diversity Worship: Just as uniformity can result in both stability and stagnation, so too can diversity sometimes ensure either dynamism or bedlam.
Victor Davis Hanson | Jan. 3, 2023
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When Will Academia Account for Its Covid Failures? We need universities to be robust centers of debate, not rigid enforcers of ideological conformity.
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May 4, 2022
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Dec. 1, 2021
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