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Stephen Bainbridge, a professor at the UCLA School of Law, wrote that the ratio of liberal to conservative faculty members at UCLA is 141 to 9. And he revealed that conservative students are “harassed, stalked, and threatened."

There were a lot of good articles this week that didn't make the "final cut" but they're definitely worth passing along for your perusal. […]
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A 1940s MI5 file shows that British intelligence suspected that the Odeon chain of cinemas was a front organisation providing...

A 1940s MI5 file shows that British intelligence suspected that the Odeon chain of cinemas was a front organisation providing...

Why isn’t the ‘political film’ a genre of cinema? Hollywood puts out a consistent stream of politically-themed films, but rarely...

Why isn’t the ‘political film’ a genre of cinema? Hollywood puts out a consistent stream of politically-themed films, but rarely...

Three scholars hoaxed academic publications with 20 papers, including a ridiculous study of canine 'rape culture' in dog parks, that was published in a professional journal. The study was written to expose the takeover of academia by gender studies, critical race theory, postcolonial theory, etc.

Academia strikes again! Carol Christine Fair, a political scientist professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University, and a former political scientist with the RAND Corporation, said GOP senators "deserve miserable deaths" and recommended castrating their corpses and feeding them to swine.

TSU President, Dr. Austin Lane, claimed that the meeting was improperly scheduled, and he had the conservative speaker escorted out for his "safety". [...]

Publishing any academic work is akin to strapping on sparring gear and stepping into the ring. But when an author salts that academic work with accusations about a beloved figure and about the probity of his work, that’s a lot like telling every black belt in the room that their master moves like a pregnant yak. People are not merely going to respond. They’re going to fight back. With vigor.