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Now more than ever, colleges must help students learn to cooperate across differences, writes Eboo Patel. Now is the time for your college to make pluralism a central principle of campus life. Yes, now, as you watch dueling protests on your quad and realize that diversity, free speech and social justice advocacy are important values for a college to uphold but incomplete without a commitment to cooperation across difference.

Quite a tempest unfolded this past week in Congress, as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (D-Calif.) closed down an anti-Israel event that Jew-hater Rashida Tlaib (D-Squad, D.C.) and her Jew-hating Squad had planned to hold in the halls of the United...

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Emily Henry, Laura Dave, and more authors offer must-read books for spring EW Staff Julia Whelan recommends People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry "People We Meet on Vacation is the perfect book for this moment. Not only did it offer the vicarious travel experience I was craving after a year at home, but mostly it was a beautiful reminder to be brave for love. Plus, it’s equal parts hilarious and sexy. A gajillion stars." — Julia Whelan, author of  My Oxford Year Randy ...

“ Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ” — George Orwell, Politics and the English Language (1946) The language of South Africa’s politicians and administrators is fudgy at best as words are used to appeal to emotion and sentiment.  Talking about “decent housing” obfuscates the failures...