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Want to See Campus Bias? Open the Syllabus.
The right seems to be on a mission to expose universities as centers of leftist indoctrination. Too often we professors waved away the charge. We called these assertions naive at best, Trumpy at worst. Students, we rightly noted, are not putty in our hands, to be molded as we see fit. They have their own minds. Plus, we all too often struggle to even get them to do the readings. How could we possibly be indoctrinating them? This objection has been made plenty of times.
We Analyzed University Syllabi. There's a Monoculture
Pomona College campus. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.) The right seems to be on a mission to expose universities as centers of leftist indoctrination. Too often we professors waved away the charge. We called these assertions naive at best, Trumpy at worst. Students, we rightly noted, are not putty in our hands, to be molded as we see fit. They have their own minds. Plus, we all too often struggle to even get them to do the readings. How could we possibly be indoctrinating them?
The Nationalization of American Politics Is a Tragedy
Stephanie Muravchik and The nationalization of American politics is a troubling bipartisan trend. As the political scientist Daniel Hopkins shows in "The Increasingly United States," the signs have been there for decades: State party platforms have become more alike, Americans are less likely to know their governors, and money for congressional races increasingly comes from outside donors.
Liz Cheney and the Twilight of the Old Republican Elite Original
Blake Masters’ Senate primary win proves how infighting leads to extremism Blake Masters speaking with attendees at the “Rally to Protect Our Elections” hosted by Turning Point Action at Arizona Federal Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona./Gage Skidmore Read More » Jordan Rose, Rose Law Group founder and president, celebrates ‘miraculous’ golf swing By Jordan Rose | Rose Law Group Reporter Miracles do happen… Jordan Rose was named after the lady golfer in the Great Gatsby.
Opinion | Liz Cheney and the Twilight of the Old Republican Elite
Opinion|Liz Cheney and the Twilight of the Old Republican Elite https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/opinion/liz-cheney-wyoming.html Guest Essay Aug. 16, 2022, 10:31 p.m. ET Credit...Jason Andrew for The New York Times Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Stephanie Muravchik and Jon A.
A Good Man for a Wounded Country
Before we consider the daunting challenges facing President-elect Joe Biden, we should consider the depth of his achievement. At the age of 77, he emerged from retirement to surmount a history of failed presidential races. He placed fourth in the Iowa caucuses, fifth in the New Hampshire primary, and second in the Nevada caucuses, before finally winning his first primary ever, in South Carolina, on Leap Day.
Those Obama-Trump Counties
Though Joe Biden eked out a victory this week, it wasn’t because of the many former Democratic strongholds that unexpectedly swung for Trump in 2016. Of the 206 counties that voted for Obama in both 2008 and 2012 but then went for Trump in 2016, nearly all of them—186 as of this writing—remained faithful to the president in 2020. For example, Biden lost all 31 Obama-Trump counties in Iowa, an important bellwether. Of the 23 such counties in Wisconsin, Biden lost all but one of them.
Untangling Faith and Love of Country
In August, I joined over 100 former Republican National Security Officials in explaining our security concerns with the current president. In my view, the president’s lapses and failures on matters of national security alone are sufficient to disqualify him from his role. Coming to that understanding, however, led to months of wrestling with several key arguments that had swayed me to vote for Trump in 2016.
Biden Should Adopt Identity Politics of Place, Not Race
Stephanie Muravchik & Jon A. Shields RealClearPolicy October 16, 2020 (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) After the economic shutdown in March, we had a strange sense of déjà vu as we walked past empty shops in our once bustling California college town.
Biden Should Embrace an Identity Politics Based on Place, Not Race
This essay is part of a RealClearPolicy series centered on the American Project, an initiative of the Pepperdine School of Public Policy. The project looks to the country’s founding principles to respond to our current cultural and political upheaval. After the economic shutdown in March, we had a strange sense of déjà vu as we walked past empty shops in our once bustling California college town.
The Other Democratic Party
Four years after Trump’s victory, scholars are still struggling to understand his appeal, especially in the many working-class communities that had previously supported Obama. Observers usually say this surprising partisan flip is due to some noxious mix of racism, authoritarianism, and diseases of social despair. Such explanations have one thing in common: They all assume these citizens must have serious psychological or character deficits.
Stephanie Muravchik and Jon A. Shields
Ride or die. Support The Bulwark. Join Now Stephanie Muravchik and Jon A. Shields Stephanie Muravchik, an associate fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, and Jon A. Shields, associate professor of government at Claremont McKenna College, are the authors of Trump’s Democrats, published last week. Articles by Stephanie Muravchik and Jon A. Shields Copyright 2020, All Rights Reserved. The Bulwark is a project of Defending Democracy Together Institute.
Opinion | Those Biden ‘Gaffes’? Some Key Voters Actually Like Them
If Joe Biden is going to rebuild the Democrats’ “blue wall” and win states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, and claim the White House, he will need to appeal to the working-class Democratic communities that put Donald Trump over the top in 2016. They include more than 200 counties that supported Barack Obama twice before voting for Mr. Trump. Many of these places had long records of unbroken support for Democratic presidential candidates, some even stretching back to before the New Deal.
Why Democratic communities flipped for Trump (and might do so again)
Why did so many traditionally “blue” communities vote for Donald Trump in 2016, and why might they do so again in 2020? In this episode, Bill Finan, director of the Brookings Institution Press, interviews two authors of a new Brookings book that explores these and related questions.
Kamala Harris Is the Birthright Citizenship Candidate
Kamala Harris is not a vice-presidential running mate who makes me any more excited about the thought of voting for Joe Biden. With Donald Trump reverting to the usual last-ditch stunt of a failing president—trying to impose his agenda by executive order—it doesn’t seem helpful for Democrats to embrace a woman whose own campaign for president was based on all the things she promised to impose by executive order.
The Case for Not Burning It All Down
There is quite a debate raging in the Never Trump Republican battalions about how we should cast our down-ballot votes this year. I have little to add, since I’m still torn and still deciding. But I do have one thought. The emotional vote is easy. Throw ’em all out! After many decades in politics I didn’t expect much from the GOP—politicians in both parties orbit the lone sun of holding office at all costs and especially fear primaries.
Trump’s Democrats
Why did hundreds of Democratic strongholds break for Donald Trump in 2016 and stay loyal to him in 2020? Looking for answers, Muravchik and Shields lived in three such “flipped” communities. There they discovered a political culture that was Trumpy long before the 45th president arrived on the national political scene.
Closed Classrooms
Current Issue One of the central justifications for universities is that they are needed to form citizens. Citizens need not just a fluency with the ideas that are contending for dominance in our democracy, but also an ability to assess them critically. This is especially true for the next generation of elites who will go on to exercise an outsized influence over national and international affairs.
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