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Illinois State Capitol Building
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Wesley J. Smith
December 13, 2025
Human Exceptionalism
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Assisted Suicide Legalized in Illinois

Wesley J. Smith
December 13, 2025
Human Exceptionalism
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The new Illinois law (SB 1950) contains many of the usual provisions and supposed safeguards. Once the law goes into effect next September, these putative protections will quickly be redefined as “obstacles” to a good death and the inevitable process of legal loosening will commence. Read More ›
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Marvin Olasky
December 13, 2025
Discovery Institute
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Olasky Books: Make Me Commissioner

Marvin Olasky
December 13, 2025
Discovery Institute
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December is midway between the end of the baseball season in October and spring training reawakening in a Florida or Arizona February, so here’s a baseball book that can keep us warm at night. Jane Leavy’s Make Me Commissioner: I Know What’s Wrong With Baseball and How to Fix It (Grand Central Publishing, 2025) includes many proposals including my favorite: Read More ›

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Young students sitting on University stairs. College friends studying together after class
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Keri D. Ingraham
December 12, 2025
Education
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Ending the Woke Monopoly: White House Takes Aim at Higher Ed’s Ideological Capture

Keri D. Ingraham
December 12, 2025
Education
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Last week, the White House convened an education roundtable with U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon titled, "Biased Professors, Woke Administrators, and the End of Free Inquiry on U.S. Campuses." Secretary McMahon opened the event by stating, "It was an honor to be at the White House today with this dedicated coalition of students, faculty, institutional leaders, and policy advocates to highlight the issue of woke ideology and the capture of our institutions of higher education...." Read More ›