LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall Stanford University accepted a Muslim teenager who responded to a college essay question by simply writing “#BlackLivesMatter” over and over. The essay prompt asked potential applicants “What matters to you, and why?” reports The Washington Times. One student, a New Jersey high school senior named Ziad Ahmed, answered the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman People who use the internet more often are less likely to be politically divided, contradicting the popular belief that the web definitively perpetuates polarization, according to a new study. Trying to decipher what is exactly causing the apparent growing schism in contemporary politics, researchers at Stanford University…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By: Andrew Follett Academic psychologists at several universities are studying how to”inoculate” the public against “fake news” about global warming. Researchers from Cambridge, Yale and George Mason University added a small dose of “misinformation” to statements about global warming, which they say helped make subjects more aware of “distortion tactics…
by Blake Neff An effort by a group of Stanford University students to restore a Western civilization class requirement has been decisively rejected by the student body, with voting results released Monday showing it mustering less than 15 percent support. The ballot initiative was promoted by members of the school’s conservative-leaning Stanford Review. If passed, it would have…