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Robert P. George

@McCormickProf

8 months

31--yes 31--Harvard organizations have declared that the murders, rapes, kidnappings, and other atrocities committed by Hamas against innocent people are in no way the fault of Hamas, but are rather entirely the fault of ... Israel. Something is deeply, deeply wrong in academia.

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1/ I sometimes ask students what their position on slavery would have been had they been white and living in the South before abolition. Guess what? They all would have been abolitionists! They all would have bravely spoken out against slavery, and worked tirelessly against it.

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2 years

Being Woke means never knowing what you'll be required to believe tomorrow.

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Robert P. George

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5 years

I apologize to the Covington Catholic boys. What Rod Dreher says of himself goes double for me. I jumped the gun and that was stupid and unjust. It is I, not the boys, who needs to take a lesson from this. The Catholic Bonfire At The Stake via @amconmag

The Catholic Bonfire At The Stake

Left weaponizes selected clips of viral video for Three-Minute Hate against MAGA schoolboys

www.theamericanconservative.com

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Robert P. George

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2 years

I've got an idea. I'll say what I think and why. If you disagree, you say what you think and why. I'll consider your arguments and respond to you. You consider mine and respond to me. I won't bully or try to silence you. You won't bully or try to silence me. We'll call it ....

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Robert P. George

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5 years

Agreed Mr. Mayor. And for an ambitious politician who associates himself with Christianity to say it's OK to suggest that God smiles on the division of a child into a collection of severed body parts at the hands of an abortionist, has lost all claim to be other than a hypocrite.

Pete Buttigieg

@PeteButtigieg

5 years

For a party that associates itself with Christianity to say it is okay to suggest that God would smile on the division of families at the hands of federal agents, that God would condone putting children in cages, has lost all claim to ever use religious language. #DemDebate

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Robert P. George

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2 years

Do I have this right? A BLM activist in Louisville who writes columns for the city's main newspaper and has been honored by Barack Obama's foundation, shoots at a Jewish guy who's running as a Democrat for mayor, is caught and arrested for attempted murder ... and is out on bail?

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Robert P. George

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4 years

5/ (5) that they would risk being denied valuable professional opportunities as a result of their moral witness. In short, my challenge is to show where they have at risk to themselves and their futures stood up for a cause that is unpopular in elite sectors of our culture today.

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1 year

Chloe Cole looks to me like a nuclear missile aimed at the gender-industrial complex, its supporting ideology, and its profits. If her lawsuit gets past the initial motions to dismiss, things will get very interesting, very fast. And many others will file.

‘Former Trans Kid’ Chloe Cole Sues Doctors for Medical Malpractice

Cole struggled with gender dysphoria from the young age of 11, when she was first exposed to LGBTQ ideology through online platforms.

www.ncregister.com

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3 years

To get rid of Trump, some people felt it was necessary to say things about Joe Biden that aren't true--that he is competent, for example, compassionate, caring, even wise. For some to say it, they had to find a way to make themselves believe it. Now reality has come crashing in.

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2 years

The next stage of the revolution will feature terrified people going beyond self-censorship to denouncing and actively joining in the persecution of others, to place themselves above suspicion of lacking zeal for the cause. It's how these things work. You can take it to the bank.

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Robert P. George

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2 years

Students: May I suggest a couple of New Year's resolutions? 1) If you don't have a smart friend who disagrees with you about important things that you deeply care about, make one. 2) Resist groupthink and self-censorship. Think for yourself; seek the truth; speak your mind.

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Robert P. George

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4 years

Ohio woman takes abortion pills. They cause labor but fail to kill baby, who's born alive at 28 wks. Woman & boyfriend provide no care, seek no med help. Child dies. Police find corpse in shoebox. Couple is prosecuted for manslaughter. Question for Dem candidates: Should they be?

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4 years

2/ Of course, this is nonsense. Only the tiniest fraction of them, or of any of us, would have spoken up against slavery or lifted a finger to free the slaves. Most of them—and us—would have gone along. Many would have supported the slave system and happily benefited from it.

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Robert P. George

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4 years

If, as appears, the shooting victim in Portland was targeted because of his politics, then we've got a political murder--an assassination. Whether the victim's politics were right, left, or center is irrelevant. An assassination is an assault on an individual and on the republic.

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Robert P. George

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2 years

Pro-life friends: Please read Lincoln's Second Inaugural and be guided by its spirit. Let us not exult over those of our fellow citizens--good people who are sincerely concerned about women's welfare--who see the demise of Roe as a disaster. Malice towards none; charity for all.

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Robert P. George

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4 years

Two years ago @CornelWest and I prayed in the rain at the grave of Frederick Douglass in Rochester, recalling with gratitude the work and witness of the great abolitionist. Today we read that in that city a statue of him was torn down and thrown into a gorge. God help us.

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4 years

4/ (1) that it would make them unpopular with their peers, (2) that they would be loathed and ridiculed by powerful, influential individuals and institutions in our society; (3) that they would be abandoned by many of their friends, (4) that they would be called nasty names, and

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Robert P. George

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4 years

3/ So I respond by saying that I will credit their claims if they can show evidence of the following: that in leading their lives today they have stood up for the rights of unpopular victims of injustice whose very humanity is denied, and where they have done so knowing:

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Robert P. George

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7 years

I'm sorry, but I'd close a university before I'd offer counseling to students to cope with ideas they disagree with.

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Robert P. George

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3 years

The way the game is now played, when people encounter a view they don't like or agree with, instead of trying to defeat it with reasons, evidence, and arguments, they try to defame and stigmatize those holding the view in the hope of making them and others afraid to express it.

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Robert P. George

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4 years

I don't know anything about Mr. Williams, but this photograph and his comment perfectly illustrate the profound division in our culture. It's "obvious" to some of us that one of the things you do in a crisis is pray. It's "obvious" to others that praying is (worse than) foolish.

Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

4 years

Mike Pence and his coronavirus emergency team praying for a solution. We are so screwed.

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Robert P. George

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3 years

1/ Dorian Abbot is a geophysicist at the University of Chicago. He was to give MIT's prestigious Carlson Lecture on Oct. 21. The topic was to be climates of extrasolar planets. Shamefully, MIT canceled the lecture under pressure from activists who objected to his political views.

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Robert P. George

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4 years

I'll give Amy Barrett's opponents some good advice, in blissful assurance that they won't take it. Don't attack her faith. Don't go near it. Stay a million miles away. Talk about health care, immigration, the weather, anything but religion. It's not her Achilles heel; it's yours.

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Robert P. George

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2 years

I live between two worlds. One is conservative, the other progressive. I continue to be astonished by the crazy things I hear people in each world saying about people in the other. They live side by side, citizens of the same nation. Yet they don't understand each other at all.

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Robert P. George

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5 years

Muslims attacked while praying in a mosque in New Zealand; Catholics attacked while praying in churches in Sri Lanka; Jews attacked while praying in synagogues in the U.S. The monsters who kill those gathered for prayer will face God on the charge of sacrilege as well as murder.

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Robert P. George

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3 years

1/ Something I've learned in 36 years of teaching super talented, high achieving, highly ambitious young men and women: A great many people believe what they believe because they think it's what smart, sophisticated, high achieving people believe and are expected to believe.

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Robert P. George

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5 months

It is CRITICAL that we derive the right message--and avoid deriving the wrong one--from Liz Magill's "voluntary" resignation. The wrong one is that universities like Penn need more restrictions of speech. The right one is that double standards will no longer be tolerated.

Nicholas A. Christakis

@NAChristakis

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President Liz Magill has just now voluntarily tendered her resignation as President of the University of Pennsylvania. She will remain a tenured faculty member at Penn Carey Law.

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Robert P. George

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2 years

Whether it's Collin College or Georgetown Law School, it's time for academic administrators to get the memo: Your job is to honor and protect academic freedom, not to police the thought and censor the speech of students and faculty.

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Robert P. George

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3 years

I respectfully request that Twitter post a list of the matters in dispute among people representing different philosophical, religious, and ideological perspectives that your company regards as definitively settled and therefore not eligible for debate on your platform.

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Robert P. George

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3 years

Fellow professors: The survey evidence is clear that students are censoring themselves. This is bad. Liberate them. Make clear in your first lecture or seminar meeting and on your syllabus that you want them to speak their minds & that there will be no thought or speech policing.

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Robert P. George

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3 years

Why is "Down Syndrome" trending on Twitter? Because some people are arguing we need permissive abortion laws so we can "screen" for people with Down's and kill them in utero. So wrong. No member of the human family is inherently superior or inferior to any other in basic dignity.

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Robert P. George

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7 years

How easy it is to denounce the evils & villains of the past. How difficult it is to muster the courage to confront the evils of the present.

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Robert P. George

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1 year

The problem for Tony Dungy haters is that the man knows what he believes and why he believes it. He neither lusts for their approbation nor fears their animosity. They can't intimidate him nor, in the end, will their cancellation campaign against him succeed. He's bullet-proof.

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Robert P. George

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2 years

Friends: Happy New Year! If you've been censoring yourself--or, worse, affirming Woke or other dogmas you know aren't true--make 2022 the year you break free. Don't let groupthink, fear, ambition, or anything else enslave you. Think for yourself. Seek the truth. Speak your mind.

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Robert P. George

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3 years

I'm pleased to announce that Dorian Abbot's lecture on extrasolar planets, meant to be the 2021 Carlson Lecture at MIT (until MIT disgraced itself by yielding to pressure to cancel it), will be given at Princeton on the date it was to be given at MIT: Oct. 21. Details to follow.

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Robert P. George

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6 years

1/ I'm re-reading the autobiography of Frederick Douglass published in 1845. It is all-too-easy for us to forget what a brutal, horrific, inhuman reality slavery was. Facing it, as Douglass forces us to do, makes us wonder how people could have supported or tolerated it. And yet

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Robert P. George

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4 years

Exam question: Statues of 19th and 18th (even 15th) century figures are being removed, toppled, or vandalized. Yet a bust of the notorious 20th century racist eugenicist Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger sits in a place of honor in the National Protrait Gallery. Explain.

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Robert P. George

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2 years

Lennart Nilsson's iconic photograph of a tiny girl at 18 weeks gestation, published in the April 30, 1965 issue of Life Magazine: "The Drama of Life Before Birth."

Juju Buttons

@JujuButtons

2 years

h/t @McCormickProf

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Robert P. George

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4 years

Here's Bernie Sanders officially excommunicating pro-life Democrats. Asked if someone can be a pro-life Democrat, he replies: "Being pro-choice is absolutely essential to being a Democrat." So: if you're pro-life you are unacceptable, unwanted, an intruder. Time to go elsewhere.

RNC Research

@RNCResearch

4 years

Bernie Sanders: no such thing as a pro-life Democrat, “being pro-choice is an absolutely essential part”

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Robert P. George

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2 years

Let's be frank. The notion that some people--the severely mentally ill, the cognitively impaired--are "useless eaters," "better off dead," "lebensunswertes leben," is back--with a vengeance. It's dressed in the language of "compassion" and "choice." We must resist it--fiercely.

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Robert P. George

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6 years

I marvel at the wonderful DIVERSITY on our Supreme Court! We have female Harvard or Yale Law grads and male Harvard or Yale grads. We have black Harvard or Yale grads and white Harvard or Yale grads and Latino Harvard or Yale grads. We have tall Harvard or Yale grads and short...

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Robert P. George

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6 years

If Amy Barrett is the nominee, keep an eye on the flow of money from the abortion and pornography industries to the anti-Amy campaign. A super smart female justice who's guided by the constitutional text, its logic, structure, and original public meaning is their worst nightmare.

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Robert P. George

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2 years

"... so that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel ..." The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled against Oberlin College in its appeal of a judgment in favor of Gibson's Bakery. Oberlin is ordered to pay damages of $36 million for defaming the Gibson family as "racists."

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Robert P. George

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4 years

Seventy-five years ago today Nazi Germany surrendered. Immense gratitude to my beloved father (now 94) and the other heroes of all allied nations who fought and sacrificed to destroy Hitler's war machine.

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Robert P. George

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3 years

Courage can be contagious. That's the good news. The bad news is that cowardice is almost always contagious.

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Robert P. George

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5 years

Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood--which gave Northam's campaign nearly $2 million--did something worse than dress up in a Klan costume: she enthusiastically spoke to a KKK woman's group. Yet she is still celebrated as some sort of hero by PP and its supporters. Why?

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Robert P. George

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4 years

Yes, this is me retweeting Noam Chomsky. Gladly and gratefully. When the man is right, he's right (and those on the right should say so).

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Robert P. George

@McCormickProf

7 years

Delighted to share this announcement: Harvard Law School establishes professorship to honor Justice Antonin Scalia:

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Robert P. George

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4 years

The gender gnostics invite JK Rowling to re-education camp and she says no. They realize that there's now a lot at stake and they must bend her to their will. If she refuses to cave & survives cancellation she licenses wholesale dissent from Woke orthodoxy. This is now a Big Deal

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Robert P. George

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I could not be prouder of the students I teach at Princeton. I have an undergraduate course in civil liberties going with about 120 students enrolled. They are brilliant, but that's a secondary reason for my pride in them. We've just spent three weeks addressing profoundly

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Robert P. George

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4 years

With my favorite Handmaiden of the Law.

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Robert P. George

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5 years

I know I'm old fashioned-a bit of a dinosaur and all that-but I can't shake the idea that when a fellow scholar says something I think is wrong and bad I should give my reasons for thinking it's wrong and bad rather than demanding that he be fired and driven out of academic life.

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Robert P. George

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26 days

My advice to university presidents is that your policy should be as follows: We honor freedom of speech and therefore do not impose and will not impose viewpoint-based restrictions on speech. We will, for the sake of protecting everyone's rights to teach and learn, strictly and

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Robert P. George

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4 years

I have an idea for a social tolerance experiment--one that would also make good reality TV. We'd film a volunteer wearing a Vote Biden T-Shirt walking down the main street of Elkins, West Virginia, and then wearing a MAGA hat walking through Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass.

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Robert P. George

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2 years

We can close our eyes, but she is there. We can turn our faces from her, but she's still there. We can pretend she doesn't exist, that she's not one of us, that her life doesn't matter. We can wish her away. We can try not to think about her. But she is there. And we know it.

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Robert P. George

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4 years

If you won't permit a view you hold to be challenged, you won't know if it's wrong. You won't know if it's right. Why would you want to hold a view if you can't know if it's right or wrong? To uphold a certain self image? To win favor or inclusion in some community? To get ahead?

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Robert P. George

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3 years

I'm not a Tulsi Gabbard fan, but I tell you: keep your eye on her. She's smart, articulate & ambitious. She's figured out how Trump beat the establishment of both paties in 2016 and built his base. She's making the adjustments. A key moment will be the party switch. Watch for it.

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Robert P. George

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1 month

This young (though not all THAT young--she's 28) woman shows us the price of a decade and more of infantilizing and coddling high school and college students, filling their heads with perverse ideologies and their hearts with a spirit of self-righteous superiority.

John Aziz

@aziz0nomics

1 month

Riddhi Patel crying in court after being charged with 16 felony counts over threatening to murder city councillors in Bakersfield unless they voted to endorse a ceasefire in Gaza. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

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4 years

To those in the grip of ideological fervor, ordinary laws by which public order is maintained mean nothing. They feel privileged to do as they please, licensed by faith in the unquestionable justice of their cause. But the destroyers of law and order are the midwives of tyranny.

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Robert P. George

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5 years

People have lots of motives for killing other people--greed, envy, ideology, hatred, racism, nihilism, and on and on. Sometimes people kill others simply because they are in the way. Only one thing can overcome all motives to kill: the conviction that every human life is sacred.

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Robert P. George

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6 years

Some free advice: Don't try to defend Roseanne Barr. It's impossible. Don't try to defend Samantha Bee. It's impossible. Don't try to distinguish Roseanne Barr from Samantha Bee. It's impossible. Don't try to defend people who say racist and misogynistic things. Don't be foolish.

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1 year

Nobody actually believes that, in humans, "sex is assigned at birth." Everybody knows that babies have a sex--male or female--before they are born. Indeed, sex is established in humans from the earliest embryonic stage. So speaking of sex "assigned at birth" is speaking falsely.

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Robert P. George

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2 years

It's crazy to identify with a category like "progressive" or "conservative" and then decide your positions on issues based on that identification. Think about each issue and decide what you believe is true. Don't worry about whether the position is regarded as "left" or "right."

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Robert P. George

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4 years

A female researcher makes an indisputably true statement: It's impossible to change biological sex. She gets fired for it. JK Rowling defends her. Rowling then comes under ferocious attack by the more-Woke-than-she. Will Rowling stand her ground? Or will she cave to the bullying?

J.K. Rowling

@jk_rowling

4 years

Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? #IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill

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Robert P. George

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4 years

Many academics are afraid to speak their minds. I'm not. If you're an academic who is, please message me. Let's talk. I'd like to be supportive of you, if I can be. Others want to be too. There's no point in being in our line of work if we can't state what we believe to be true.

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Robert P. George

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5 years

One may be tempted to dismiss this inanity as amusing ignorance from an overeager, overconfident young pol. It's more insidious than that. It's the sort of ignorance that is produced by a head full of ideology-- and it won't be confined to laughable errors about historical facts.

Tom Elliott

@tomselliott

5 years

According to AOC, Congress amended the Constitution to prevent FDR from being re-elected: "They had to amend the Constitution of the United States to make sure Roosevelt dd not get reelected." (Reminder, FDR died in office in 1945; the 22nd Amendment came in 1947)

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Robert P. George

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6 years

My advice to Catholics: Don't assume that Pope Francis is guilty. Don't assume that Archbishop Vigano is lying. Assume nothing. Demand the release of the McCarrick dossier and all pertinent documents. We need the evidence of who knew what when. We are entitled to know the truth.

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Robert P. George

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3 years

She's running. The party switch will come in due course but the appeal to Republican primary voters (as well as independents) began a few months ago. She not only knows the words, she can also sing the tune. She's not my candidate, but she's going to be formidable.

Tulsi Gabbard 🌺

@TulsiGabbard

3 years

Please, let us stop the RACIALIZATION of everyone and everything. We are all children of God, and therefore family in the truest sense, no matter our race or ethnicity. This is aloha - love & respect for others. This is what our country & the world need.

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Robert P. George

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4 years

Some officials and experts seem to think we're dealing with a virus so smart that it knows whether you're at a defund the police demonstration or a Donald Trump rally, and so virtuous that it infects you and makes you a vector for infecting others only if you're at a Trump rally.

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Robert P. George

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5 years

No matter the reason (and no matter where) children are in government custody, soap, toothbrushes, blankets, & a decent place to sleep are minimal conditions of human decency. This should not need to be litigated and it's disgraceful for govt. agencies to defend the indefensible.

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Robert P. George

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4 years

Ummm .... "Move along. Move along now. Nothing to see here. No. Nothing to see. Move along now. We've got everything under control. Move along. Get about your business."

Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist

@DeAngelisCorey

4 years

Harvard University faculty Liberal: 80% Moderate: 19% Conservative: 1%

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6 years

My God! People! People!!! Do you not see where this goes??? Do the Dutch, who suffered under--and in many cases heroically resisted--Hitler's domination, forget that the "final solution" began with the dehumanization and eugenic killing of the handicapped?

Obianuju Ekeocha

@obianuju

6 years

Watching this broke my heart💔. This dear man who has DownSyndrome is told exactly how much he is costing society & how “expensive” he is☹️. Why has the Dutch National Institute for Public Health ( @RIVM ) put a price tag to human life? Why?

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Robert P. George

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It becomes clearer every day that the President is not up to the job. There is a leadership vacuum and it is having tragic consequences--in Afghanistan, yes, but not just in Afghanistan. And we're only seven months into the President's term. This is not good.

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Robert P. George

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5 years

Uju nails it. What the Cleveland Clinic has done in surgically repairing a spina bifida defect on a child in the womb is healthcare. To have deliberately killed the child (say, because she had spina bifida and was therefore "unwanted") would NOT have been healthcare.

Obianuju Ekeocha

@obianuju

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Wow!!!! Cleveland Clinic has successfully performed its first in utero fetal surgery to repair a spina bifida birth defect. Now this is healthcare!

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There will now be two kinds of people: Those who find what they watch on this video deeply moving and who regard Greta Thunberg as a prophet and perhaps a saint, and those who are outraged by what they regard as the indoctrination, manipulation, and exploitation of a child.

CNN

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"You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words," climate activist Greta Thunberg tells the UN. "We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you."

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4/ MIT's caving in to a cancel mob's demand to disinvite a distinguished scientist who had been invited on the basis of his achievements to give an honorific lecture shows just how badly science today has been politicized. The integrity of science can't survive politicization.

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Robert P. George

@McCormickProf

2 years

It begins.

Christina Buttons

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2 years

BREAKING: Chloe Cole ( @ChoooCole ) announced her intent to sue the hospital and affiliated medical group that facilitated her medical transition as a minor. Read my latest for @realDailyWire !

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I confess to feeling a bit sorry for Mayor Wu. She's a bright, hard-working, and no doubt dedicated person who was educated in the Bubble. Her head is filled with ideological notions that prevent her seeing a problem with the exclusion she's practicing in the name of inclusion.

Libby Emmons

@libbyemmons

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Mayor Wu defends segregated holiday party and reveals it's been going on for years

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Robert P. George

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The defamatory attacks--especially those by fellow journalists--on Matt Taibbi are disgusting. He's an honest, responsible writer/reporter who calls 'em as he sees 'em. Like the rest of us human beings, he's got a point of view. But he does his best to provide unvarnished facts.

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Robert P. George

@McCormickProf

7 years

Phony manliness is about vulgarity and bravado. Real manliness is about serving others sacrificially and protecting the weak and vulnerable.

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Robert P. George

@McCormickProf

3 years

3/ It is impossible to exaggerate how disgraceful MIT's capitulation to a mob's demands to cancel Dr. Dorian Abbot's lecture is. That he was qualified on the basis of his achievements as as a geophysical scientist to give the Carlson Lecture was never questioned--nor could it be.

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Robert P. George

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Heather MacDonald nails it. The problem for the Penn, Harvard, and MIT presidents is not that they failed to endorse censorship when they should have. It's that they were exposed as hypocrites and dissemblers when they appealed to free speech principles.

Liz Magill's Hypocrisy on Free Speech

The firing of Penn president Liz Magill, along with the embattled status of her peers at MIT and Harvard, owes to an irony: they are being condemned not for their many abuses of free speech but for...

www.city-journal.org

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Robert P. George

@McCormickProf

4 years

Confirmation hearings for S.Ct. nominees aren't constitutionally required. They began in 1916. We've not gotten better justices because of them. They often degenerate into partisan brawls and forums for character assassination. Senators can obtain the info they need without them.

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Robert P. George

@McCormickProf

2 years

We've seen this movie before--more than once. The Jacobins. The Bolsheviks. The Red Guards. How many times do people need to view it before realizing that the ending never changes? They promise "justice" and "a better world" but deliver the destruction of basic civil liberties.

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Robert P. George

@McCormickProf

1 year

Ostensibly secular universities are actually deeply religious--their lives as punctuated and regulated by liturgies and rituals as any monastery. There's the land acknowledgment liturgy, the diversity statement ritual, the pronouns ritual. We have saints, demons, even holy months

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Robert P. George

@McCormickProf

1 month

Whoa!!! This is whistle blowing on ideological bias at NPR on a whole new scale. My hat is off to Uri Berliner. This took guts.

I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.

Uri Berliner, a veteran at the public radio institution, says the network lost its way when it started telling listeners how to think.

www.thefp.com

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Robert P. George

@McCormickProf

6 years

Good Lord, people! "But abortion!" is no answer to inhumanity toward migrants. And "but migrants!" is no answer to inhumanity toward unborn babies. Humanity to all humanity is the answer to all inhumanity.

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Robert P. George

@McCormickProf

3 years

Bears repeating, I think: Ordinary authoritarians are content to forbid people from saying things they believe to be true. Totalitarians insist on requiring people to say things they believe to be false.

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Robert P. George

@McCormickProf

5 years

I deeply disagree with Marc Hill. But if Temple U fires him, I will organize a protest. Academic freedom is for everyone or it's for no one.

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Robert P. George

@McCormickProf

4 years

1/ I asked folks who wished to continue following me on Twitter from anonymous accounts to identify themselves privately. I was deluged with messages explaining that anonymity is necessary because they have (some) conservative beliefs and fear being fired if their employers knew.

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Robert P. George

@McCormickProf

4 years

When Nick Sandmann buys CNN, will he change the name to SNN or keep it as it is, for old time's sake?

Mollie

@MZHemingway

4 years

CNN Analyst Calls Nick Sandmann 'Snot Nose' Kid After Airing Speech That Wrecked Them

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Robert P. George

@McCormickProf

3 years

2/ Those who pressured MIT to cancel Dr. Abbot's lecture oppose his views on "diversity, equity, and inclusion": . As you can see, these have nothing to do with the topic of his Carlson Lecture. The activists cancel anyone who dissents from their dogmas.

The Diversity Problem on Campus

Viewed objectively, American universities already are incredibly diverse.

www.newsweek.com

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Robert P. George

@McCormickProf

3 years

Cornel West and Jeremy Tate bearing witness: "Academia’s campaign to disregard the classics is a sign of spiritual decay and moral decline. Those who commit this terrible act treat Western civilization as irrelevant or harmful and worthy of condemnation."

Opinion | Howard University’s removal of classics is a spiritual catastrophe

One of America's greatest Black universities is diminishing the light and wisdom that inspired Frederick Douglass, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and countless other freedom fighters.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Robert P. George

@McCormickProf

6 years

In the face of all the mutual hatred, bitterness and recriminations, and with the nation so in need of healing, it was impressive that all the Supreme Court justices attended the Kavanaugh swearing-in at the WH. Kudos especially to Justices Ginsberg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan.

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Robert P. George

@McCormickProf

4 years

A reminder from Alexandra DeSanctis of a particularly ugly episode from the not-too-distant past. Kamala Harris’s Anti-Catholic Bigotry

Kamala Harris’s Anti-Catholic Bigotry | National Review

Someone might want to remind Biden that Harris believes Catholics are unfit to serve in our nation’s courts.

www.nationalreview.com

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Robert P. George

@McCormickProf

6 years

Friends can deeply disagree even about issues they profoundly care about, yet continue to respect and even admire each other. We once knew that. We had better relearn it before we destroy this great experiment in republican government and ordered liberty. #civicsolidaritymatters

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Robert P. George

@McCormickProf

6 years

This is my first retweeting of a presidential tweet. I said I would support him when he does things that are right and good. This is right and good. It is time--past time--for the U.S. to impose sanctions on the Erdogan regime for the unjust detainment of Andrew Brunson.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

6 years

The United States will impose large sanctions on Turkey for their long time detainment of Pastor Andrew Brunson, a great Christian, family man and wonderful human being. He is suffering greatly. This innocent man of faith should be released immediately!

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Robert P. George

@McCormickProf

1 year

If you're a Matt Walsh hater, lay that aside for a few minutes and listen to Paula Scanlan tell her story. The behavior of the U. of Pennsylvania toward her and her teammates on the women's swimming team can only be described as Stalinist: threats, indoctrination, gaslighting.

Matt Walsh

@MattWalshBlog

1 year

A teammate of Lia Thomas appeared in What Is A Woman anonymously. A few days ago she came to us and said she is ready to come out publicly and tell her story. I had a longer conversation with Paula where she revealed a number of details that weren't covered in the film. Watch:

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