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Treasured American Values Are Slipping Away

The fact that 83% of last year’s science competition finalists were the children of immigrants points more to the collapse of America’s education culture than the skills of immigrants’ children.

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Middlebury’s Principles Require Discipline

Nowhere among the platitudes listed do the professors call for the rule of law.

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Military’s Damaged Morale and Readiness

People are unprepared, unable or unwilling to do proper training, while precious time is wasted on kindergarten-like sessions called “Green Dot.”

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Trade Deficit, GDP Rise and Fall Together

The problem with Peter Navarro’s commentary is the assumption that by renegotiating trade agreements, the Trump administration can bring jobs and investment back to the United States.

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Beware the Dismissal of Germany’s Nazi Past

Germany’s new far-right party, the Alternative for Germany, isn’t the first to lament the Nazi past’s dominance in German memory and identity politics.

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Just Make the Good Movies And Forget the Diatribes

If the movie industry wants to sell tickets to the 63 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump, it will have to stop employing actors, writers and directors who viciously attack our president and the traditional values that his voters embrace.

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Original Mission of College Long Forgotten

This is vivid evidence of perhaps the greatest social problem facing the U.S.—intolerance of critical thinking and the threat to free speech on our campuses.

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Professor’s Surprise: ‘Beowulf’ Didn’t Offend

The university atmosphere of the past 15 years persuaded me to self-censor at least once and to be very much aware of the possibility of offending students in unpredictable ways.

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Continuing Tally of Death Under Cuba’s Dictatorship

Despite more than two years of “normalization” with the U.S., “Cuba is the same totalitarian hellhole that it has been for the past 58 years.”

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We Thought We Would Hit Your Sweet Spot

George Shultz and James Baker take issue with the Journal’s Feb. 25 editorial “The Carbon Tax Chimera.”

• Review & Outlook: The Carbon Tax Chimera
• George Shultz and James Baker: A Conservative Answer to Climate Change

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A Sound Business Practice Becomes a Crime

Only an out-of-control bureaucracy can find a crime in what the rest of the world sees as a sound business practice. Moreover, only a perversion of the profit motive can incentivize law enforcement to seek out nonexistent crimes—policing for profit.

Charging for Carry-Ons Would Civilize Boarding

The obvious problem with airline boarding is that the airlines are giving away something that has significant value.