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Stefan Beck
Leftist Academia Shows Its True Colors
April was another stellar month for the Ivy League, with a Yale senior's art project about abortion topped only by a Dartmouth professor planning to sue her students.
Goeglein, The Plagiarist Too Easily Forgiven
Plagiarism, like imitation, is a sincere form of flattery. Just ask all the people White House official Timothy S. Goeglein stole his words from... UPDATE: PJM’s Roger Kimball offers some (unoriginal) thoughts on plagiarism here.
Ain’t Misbehavin’: Tom Perrotta’s ‘The Abstinence Teacher’
The Abstinence Teacher may not be Tom Perrotta's best novel, argues Stefan Beck, but as a satire of adolescence and Sex Ed, "it recognizes that any rigid program for explaining or improving human behavior is bound to fail, especially if it's rooted in good intentions."
The Trouble with Conspiracy Theories…
Stefan Beck examines the odd allure of the conspiracy theory, from anti-Semitic "cabalists" to 9/11 Truthers, who "may not believe every horror story, but... [believe] that every one is plausible enough to flog without shame."
