Opinion
Sowell laments Progressives’ history of certainty, dismissiveness
Public discourse suffers when one side in a debate refuses to listen to the other side's arguments.
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Lawmakers have chance to fix ‘progressive’ mistake
A lawsuit from N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein helped expose a politically motivated law put in place during progressives' years of political power.
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The absurdities of ideological driven science
In the 21st century, woke progressivism has inundated itself in mass culture, academic institutions, and left-wing political policy. However, in its most recent expansion it has perniciously invaded scientific institutions in an attempt to totalize a political agenda. In seeking to have a totalizing narrative, woke progressivism attempts to leave no stone unturned. The insatiable...
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Stein suit targets piece of N.C. progressive history
The N.C. attorney general challenges a law once championed by his own party's progressive wing.
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Democratic govs get failing grades
To the extent Democrats cede both right and center to Republicans when it comes to economics, they are making a long-term bet that the public wants vastly more government and vastly more taxes to pay for it.
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N.C. State making little effort to promote viewpoint heterogeneity
Like just about every university and college these days, mine — N.C. State University — spends millions each year on a sprawling bureaucracy advocating racial, gender, and other types of “cultural” diversity. A university should be a marketplace of ideas to be discovered, understood, analyzed, and debated. Students and research produced should be rigorous, judicious, and worldly. A public...
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The Real Progressives in Raleigh
While venerating the state’s rich and instructive history, North Carolina conservatives are open to new ideas and are willing to look far beyond the state’s borders to find them.
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Flashback: The New Campus Discrimination
Preferring men over women in college admissions would once have been considered unjust. Now, with affirmative-action extremism gone amok, it is considered progressive.
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Framing the Budget
When progressives describe government actions, it's hard to tell what they're really doing.
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Reading the Left-Hand Pages
Here is a handy list of politically progressive Internet sites worth an occasional read. Most of the sites and blogs are based in North Carolina.
