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from AIER | American Institute for Economic Research
How a Leftist Echo Chamber Became the New Norm on Campus
A pronounced and growing hostility to free markets has turned the academic humanities into an ideological echo chamber. Over the past 20 years, faculty in English, history, foreign languages, and philosophy have shifted sharply to the political left, resulting in a nearly complete exclusion of dissenting perspectives from these fields. College students as a whole have a roughly even divide in their political beliefs, with a clear plurality classifying themselves as moderates and smaller groups identifying on both the left and right of center. In the humanities, however, the political left overwhelmingly dominates the student landscape as well as the faculty.
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from The Archive
In the 1960s, America saw culture flourishing and technology advancing. Space exploration in particular was growing fast thanks to displaced Cold War tensions. American progress was largely spurred by the Soviet Union’s own rapid accomplishments: The Soviet Union was the first nation to send probes, unmanned rockets, and eventually a person into space to receive imagery and data of a world previously untouched. Fearful of what the Soviet Union could do with this information, the United States government began allocating more funds into their own space research and technology. The term “space race” was coined as President Kennedy and President Nixon made promises to put American men on the moon itself before the decade ended. Not only would a spectacular moon landing one-up the Soviets, but the whole world would see America’s scientific superiority.
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from Business Insider
American kids want to be famous on YouTube, and kids in China want to go to space: survey
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from DW News (Deutsche Welle)
Broadcasting & Media Production Company in Bonn, Germany
US removes Turkey from F-35 program after S-400 fiasco
In a widely expected move, the White House has formally begun the process to remove Turkey from its advanced fighter jet program. Turkey has opted for Russian military hardware over its US equivalent.
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US removes Turkey from F-35 program after S-400 fiasco
In a widely expected move, the White House has formally begun the process to remove Turkey from its advanced fighter jet program. Turkey has opted for Russian military hardware over its US equivalent.
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from HumanProgress.org
Education Website
Green catastrophism has its roots in thousands of years of religious doom-mongering. The fate of the planet is too important to be left to the prophets of doom.
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Has the church followed the Bible on slavery?
This question is a bit of an old chestnut—but I thought it worth revisiting, not least in the light of an interesting Twitter exchange I had with an Australian academic (whom I do not know in person). Robert Myles is lecturer in lecturer in New Testament and Religion at Murdoch University, and has published academically on slavery. I don’t know what interest he has in the debate on sexuality, but the conversation started (as it often does) in connection with a a discussion about the recent revision of the basis of faith of the Evangelical Group of General Synod (EGGS) in relation to sexuality:
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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B.C. history comes alive in Uno Langmann's photo collection
UBC was ecstatic, stating “it is considered the premiere private collection of early provincial photos.” Selections from the collection have been shown in critically-acclaimed exhibitions at the Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver and the Audain Gallery in Whistler. But Langmann being Langmann, he kept collecting. So now he’s donating another 2,500 photos.
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from The Vancouver Sun
UBC was ecstatic, stating “it is considered the premiere private collection of early provincial photos.” Selections from the collection have been shown in critically-acclaimed exhibitions at the Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver and the Audain Gallery in Whistler. But Langmann being Langmann, he kept collecting. So now he’s donating another 2,500 photos.
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from The Washington Times
News & Media Website in Washington, D.C.
Roughly 50% of voters say racist charges against Trump politically motivated: Rasmussen poll
A new poll has tracked the nuances of racism charges that continue to surround President Trump. “Voters are closely divided over whether President Trump is a racist, but one-in-three Democrats think it’s racism any time a white politician criticizes a politician of color,” said a Rasmussen Reports survey of 1,000 likely U.S. voters released Wednesday. It found that 47% of all voters think Mr. Trump is a racist, down three percentage point from 50% revealed in a similar poll conducted 18 months ago. Yet a near a majority of voters — 49% — now disagree and say the president’s opponents and critics are accusing him of racism “only for political gain.” That has risen from 43% in the earlier survey.
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Roughly 50% of voters say racist charges against Trump politically motivated: Rasmussen poll
A new poll has tracked the nuances of racism charges that continue to surround President Trump. “Voters are closely divided over whether President Trump is a racist, but one-in-three Democrats think it’s racism any time a white politician criticizes a politician of color,” said a Rasmussen Reports survey of 1,000 likely U.S. voters released Wednesday. It found that 47% of all voters think Mr. Trump is a racist, down three percentage point from 50% revealed in a similar poll conducted 18 months ago. Yet a near a majority of voters — 49% — now disagree and say the president’s opponents and critics are accusing him of racism “only for political gain.” That has risen from 43% in the earlier survey.
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