Didn’t have a career as a professor: Descartes Spinoza Leibniz Locke Berkeley Hume To do innovative intellectual work, you may have to do it outside academia.

Why are students afraid to speak their minds? U Michigan's report on freedom of expression asked students about campus climate. A short 🧵: "During meetings, professors and other faculty have made comments that vilify other conservatives and portray them as ignorant."

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Nothing so perfectly distills the just-so stories that progressives tell themselves to justify political discrimination. “It is only natural that an institute of higher learning should be progressive in its beliefs and its culture. This is the result of higher education.”

If you want egalitarian redistribution, ok fine, but you just have to accept that it will involve taking from the responsible, the virtuous, the law-abiding, and the savers and giving to the irresponsible, the vicious, the criminal, and the spendthrift on a massive scale.