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How the Print Revolution created a market of ideas

The internet and social media have created a faster, broader-based market of ideas. Like our early-modern predecessors, who grappled with similar pressures in the aftermath of the print revolution, we will have to get used to it.

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Why Can’t the Jews Teach Their Children How to Speak Hebrew? » Mosaic

American Jewry has spent over $100 million in Hebrew education. The results are far from impressive.

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When Students Become Terrorists | The Free Press

The Weather Underground railed against the establishment. Today’s campus protesters are supported by it. Call them the Weather Overground.

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A Stupid Cartoon and the University Ideology - Liberties

Among the thousand currents of the university turmoil during these last several months, the tiny ripple that most securely caught my eye was a distinctly minor scandal at Harvard back in February, which caused not a single broken window or student riot or

Take me back to the days of The New Republic, where Paul Berman, edited by Leon Weiseltier, published lengthy intellectual analyses of American, European, and Islamic radical thought. It was a different time, when a weekly with a not insignificant readership, cared about ideas.

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“The red star returns,” by Gary Saul Morson

Gary Saul Morson on the specter of communism.

Refurbishing the old ideology was easy. It was only necessary to substitute other, more up-to-date oppositions for 'proletariat' and 'bourgeoisie' so the world could still be divided into virtuous oppressed and evil oppressors. Far from betraying Marxism, this flexibility was just what Marx and Lenin had recommended...."