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Students regularly act out little psycho-dramas of oppression before an appreciative audience of diversity deanlets who use the occasion to expand their dominion.
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Appreciative
Dominion
Oppression
Expand
Occasion
Regularly
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Federal consent decrees - agreements between the federal government and a local agency to change how that agency operates - are burdensome, costly, and rarely justified.
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Agency
Consent
Federal Government
Justified
Agreements
Burdensome
Costly
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There are virtually no females who would be able to lug a fallen male solider weighing 200 pounds naked, before donning battle equipment, 200 yards out of the line of fire.
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Equipment
Naked
Weighing
Yards
Females
Virtually
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The more frequently officers encounter violent suspects from any given racial group, the greater the chance that members of that racial group will be shot by a police officer.
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Police Officer
Suspects
Encounter
Frequently
Officer
Racial
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The inevitable campaign for 'gender balance' in Silicon Valley will also be indifferent to the fact that females are fast surpassing males in other sectors of the U.S. economy.
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Gender
Indifferent
Inevitable
Males
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Surpassing
Females
Sectors
Valley
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I don't understand how people of intelligence can reconcile what I see as constant proof of divine indifference to human outcomes with a reverence for God. To me it's a mystery.
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Divine
Indifference
Outcomes
Proof
Reconcile
Reverence
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If, by deferring or maybe even skipping college entirely, students were foregoing their one hope for immersion in Western civilization, there would indeed be grounds for regret.
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Civilization
Regret
Western Civilization
Entirely
Grounds
Skipping
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I don't know a single conservative donor who is not fervently trying to improve urban schools or provide scholarships in order to liberate pupils from that educational wasteland.
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Educational
Pupils
Urban
Donor
Fervently
Liberate
Scholarships
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Biological fathers are of slight importance to the raising of children, after all, and the larger the welfare state, the more employment for crucial members of the Democratic base.
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Crucial
Employment
Welfare
Welfare State
Biological
Fathers
Slight
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For decades, liberal criminologists have tried to corroborate the Left's cherished belief that the criminal-justice system responds to similarly situated whites and blacks unequally.
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Decades
Blacks
Cherished
Responds
Similarly
Situated
Whites
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Feminists declare that men and women are equal in all respects. They petulantly decry any atavistic male courtesy towards females as a relic of a still oppressive patriarchal culture.
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Courtesy
Men And Women
Men Women Culture
Declare
Females
Women Men Culture
Feminists
Relic
Oppressive
Patriarchal
Respects
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I think that some part of society is worried that the racial achievement gap is not going to close. And so we've become obsessed with trying to find instances of racism to explain it.
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Achievement
Gap
Racial
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Though you'd never know it from reading the academic literature, some people in minority communities even see prison as potentially positive for individuals as well as for communities.
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Academic
Minority
Potentially
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No one has advanced the argument that all-male fighting forces have been handicapped in their war-making abilities over the millennia because they did not include women in their ranks.
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Handicapped
Advanced
Include
Millennia
Ranks
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Ideally, informal social controls, above all the family, preserve public order. But when the family disintegrates, the police are the second-best solution for protecting the law-abiding.
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Controls
Ideally
Informal
Law-Abiding
Preserve
Protecting
Solution
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A proper respect for female difference is one of the great civilizing disciplines; a society that truly treated males and females as equal, interchangeable parts would be not worth living in.
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Males
Worth Living
Disciplines
Females
Interchangeable
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The Democratic Party now is an extension of this poisonous identity politics on college campuses and to be honest, I can only hope it continues because American by and large are not buying it.
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Buying
Democratic Party
Poisonous
College Campuses
Extension
To Be Honest
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Conservatives should single-mindedly privilege marriage as the solution to poverty and the best path for raising successful children, and not rationalize the real of destructive cultural change.
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Destructive
Privilege
Rationalize
Conservatives
Raising
Solution
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If Republicans want to change their stance on immigration, they should do so on the merits, not out of a belief that only immigration policy stands between them and a Republican Hispanic majority.
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Hispanic
Immigration
Immigration Policy
Stance
Merits
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Marriage civilizes males by making them responsible for their children and by imposing on boys the need to develop the bourgeois habits of self-discipline and work that make them attractive mates.
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Attractive
Bourgeois
Imposing
Males
Mates
Self Discipline
Habits
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A second parent in the home provides back-up support in discipline when the other is at the breaking point, and a doubling of the emotional, intellectual, and moral resources that a child can draw on.
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Discipline
Breaking
Doubling
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Big-city police chiefs feel more pressure from race activists than from the hard-working residents of high-crime areas, who fiercely want more policing but have no spokesmen to defend their interests.
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Chiefs
Residents
Activists
Fiercely
Hard-Working
Policing
Spokesmen
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Opponents of New York City's proactive style of policing struggle mightily to downplay its most obvious benefit: the largest crime drop on record, concentrated overwhelmingly in minority neighborhoods.
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Obvious
Opponents
Proactive
Concentrated
Downplay
Drop
Largest
Minority
Neighborhoods
Policing
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Police departments are under enormous political pressure to hire based on race, despite existing efforts to recruit minorities, on the theory that doing so will decrease police shootings of minorities.
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Decrease
Enormous
Minorities
Recruit
Departments
Efforts
Existing
Hire
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European operetta and German singspiel provided the American musical its combination of spoken dialogue and song; the inclusion of dance traced a lineage to French baroque opera. But what a difference!
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Baroque
Combination
Dialogue
Inclusion
Lineage
Opera
German
Provided
Spoken
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A strong police presence keeps individuals involved in 'street life' from triggering the most severe penalties of the law by providing a surrogate for the self-control and parental oversight that they lack.
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Oversight
Parental
Penalties
Providing
Self Control
Severe
Presence
Surrogate
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The enemy capture of female soldiers during a hot war will in fact provoke even greater than usual political pressure to quickly rescue them, if necessary overriding sounder but more time-consuming strategies.
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Capture
Rescue
Time Consuming
Usual
Overriding
Provoke
Soldiers
Strategies
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Strong women together create a special vibe and special power, we are told; thus the ongoing existence of all-female schools and clubs at a time when any remaining all-male organizations are in the crosshairs.
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Clubs
Ongoing
Strong Women
Time Women Power
Time Power Women
Remaining
Thus
Vibe
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Females have always been the biggest consumers of spiritual hoaxes such as astrology, crystals, seances, and other metaphysical claims about the world that rest simply on assertion rather than scientific proof.
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Assertion
Astrology
Claims
Crystals
Metaphysical
Proof
Females
Scientific
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President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions want to change the false Black Lives Matter narrative, but it doesn't look like they will have many allies among liberal mayors and their police commanders.
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Allies
Attorney
Mayors
Narrative
Attorney General
Donald Trump
False
Jeff
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The pressure to take irrelevant characteristics like race and sex into account in academic science is dangerous enough. But Silicon Valley continues to remake itself in the image of the campus diversity bureaucracy.
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Academic
Bureaucracy
Campus
Characteristics
Irrelevant
Pressure
Sex
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Account
Remake
Image
Valley
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Republican politicians regularly churn out earnest policy wonkery and programs in the hope of raising more black children out of poverty. Black uplift remains an obsessive concern of white Republican philanthropists.
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Concern
Earnest
Obsessive
Remains
Programs
Philanthropists
Regularly
Uplift
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Questioning someone who is acting as a lookout for a burglary might not result in an arrest, because there is not enough evidence of a crime in progress to support one, but that intervention will likely avert the break-in.
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Avert
Evidence
Intervention
Questioning
Arrest
Lookout
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The open-borders Right regularly insists that immigrants and their children are assimilating at a brisk clip. It would be nice to see them advocating as well, then, an English-only practice in all government communications.
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Advocating
Clip
Immigrants
Assimilating
Be Nice
Communications
Insists
Regularly
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It has always been a sign of desperation that racial-preference supporters argue that the government can honor the constitutional mandate not to discriminate on the basis of race only by discriminating on the basis of race.
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Desperation
Constitutional
Discriminate
Mandate
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This ideal of the Socratic academy is so reasonable that it may seem foolish to quibble with it. Of course, students should engage with ideas that they disagree with rather than silencing anything that challenges their worldview.
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Disagree
Foolish
Reasonable
Silencing
Worldview
Ideal
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Western classical music had long known syncopation. But no one had felt compelled to snap his fingers to music before American jazz and musical theater, which sent a previously undiscovered current coursing through the body, demanding outlet.
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Classical Music
Compelled
Fingers
Musical Theater
Classical
Current
Demanding
Outlet
Sent
Snap
Undiscovered
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Human-resources departments in corporations across the country are pervaded by the view that the corporation's white-male employees are incapable of fairly judging females and underrepresented minorities without large dollops of diversity training.
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Corporations
Incapable
Judging
Minorities
Fairly
Corporation
Departments
Employees
Females
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It is not the case that I can predict your views knowing that you are a white male. I cannot predict your views if you are a black female, and it is height of both arrogance and condescension to think that somebody can be type casted on the base of.
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Arrogance
Height
Views
Predict
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It is, at the very least, ironic that we are requiring men to behave with more respect for female sensibilities at the same time that the combat gender-integrators are insisting that women on the frontlines will be and should be given no special consideration.
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Behave
Combat
Consideration
Insisting
Ironic
Time Men Women
Time Women Respect
Requiring
Sensibilities
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But a married spouse at whatever income level is almost always going to improve the economy of a household over a lifetime, whether that spouse is adding the proceeds of a minimum-wage job or the inestimable value of being a stay-at-home parent while the other one works.
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Lifetime
Spouse
Stay At Home
Adding
Inestimable
Proceeds
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Besides interrupting more serious criminal activity, intensive misdemeanor enforcement and proactive street stops send the message to criminals and law-abiding residents alike that the rule of law is still in effect in troubled neighborhoods and that the police are watching.
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Activity
Enforcement
Interrupting
Proactive
Residents
Rule Of Law
Alike
Besides
Criminal
Intensive
Law-Abiding
Troubled
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For decades, universities have nurtured the most lunatic forms of feminism, denying the biological differences between males and females, promoting the idea that Western civilization is endemically sexist, and encouraging in their students ever-more-delusional forms of victimhood.
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Encouraging
Civilization
Decades
Differences
Lunatic
Males
Sexist
Western Civilization
Biological
Denying
Females
Nurtured
Universities
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Any female who thinks that she needs a female in front of her in order to learn as much as she can, or to envision a career in a particular field, has declared herself a follower rather than a pioneer - and a follower based on a characteristic irrelevant to intellectual achievement.
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Achievement
Irrelevant
Characteristic
Envision
Herself
Pioneer
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Federal transfers are not even a zero-sum proposition; they are a negative-sum proposition, leaking value at every step of the way, thanks to the costs of collecting federal tax dollars, then trickling them back out to the states' own costly bureaucracies via federal paper-pushers who write and oversee grant programs.
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Collecting
Every Step
Tax Dollars
Thanks
Costly
Grant
Programs
Leaking
Oversee
Proposition
Transfer
Via
Zero-Sum
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The important thing to understand about eliminating racial preferences in college admissions is that doing so does not lower the number of minority college students, it just redistributes them to schools for which they are actually qualified, rather than catapulting them into academic environments where they will inevitably struggle.
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Academic
Admission
College Students
Qualified
Environments
Inevitably
Lower
Minority
Preferences
Racial
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One of the greatest accomplishments of Western civilization is the development of the scientific method and the scientific disposition, which entail the development of falsifiable hypotheses about the world and the unwillingness to take unverified and untheorized claims about the world as truth, simply because someone states that they are true.
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Civilization
Claims
Disposition
Method
Scientific Method
Western Civilization
Accomplishments
Hypotheses
Scientific
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