July 2025 was the centennial of the famous “monkey trial” of John Thomas Scopes in Dayton, Tennessee. Scopes was on trial for violating Tennessee’s Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of any theory of the origin of man that contradicted the account in Genesis. There is a preferred narrative for the Scopes trial, which goes […]
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College students are on an alarming path of equating words with weapons and supporting politically-motivated violence to stop “harmful speech.” Even before the assassination of Turning Point USA founder and free speech champion Charlie Kirk, college students have increasingly seen free speech as an enemy of safety and security. The free speech group Freedom of […]
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“Should I let go of my Zionist friends?” asks an anonymous Harvard student. A Harvard Crimson editor responds: yes, the student is entitled to end those friendships. What sounds like a thoughtful meditation on friendship and conviction instead reads like a dispatch from a campus that no longer knows what truth is—or what friendship requires. […]
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