New Oxford Notes: June 2016
The Unbearable Whiteness of Being
Pushers of political correctness now desire, if not demand, something called "deep diversity" — that is, eliminating all signs of "whiteness" from campuses across the country.
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The Last Rhetorical Refuge of an Intellectual Scoundrel
A writer in the outrageously compares the Church's refusal to ordain women with a Muslim mob's murder of a young woman.
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