John Leo
John Leo
John Leois a writer and editor in chief of Minding the Campus, an independent, non-profit web site on America's colleges and universities. He joined the Manhattan Institute as a senior fellow in 2007 to launch the project and developed the site at the Institute for the past 8 years. He is also a Visitor of Ralston College, a start-up liberal arts college in Savannah...
NationalityAmerican
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CountryUnited States of America
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It will continue to be a core holding for us, no doubt, based upon its dominant franchise and its long-term ability to consolidate and drive the way the Internet is moving,
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I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take an allegedly principled stand on a Monday, then switch firmly to the opposite principle on Tuesday if it is to their advantage.
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I think it will be hard for us to ignore it completely, but we look at possibly the clouds blowing away and things becoming a little more sanguine for Microsoft later in the year,
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Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.
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But that was a raw number, not adjusted for comparable jobs and responsibility.
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Though evidence shows that the terrorists are interested in acquiring nuclear weapons to use against our cities, a learned writer for the New York Review of Books insists that the real weapons of mass destruction are world poverty and environmental abuse. Of course, world poverty is rarely mentioned by terrorists, and those known to be involved have almost all been well fed and are well to do.
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It's not why I'm in the business. ... It's not something I relish. ... I do it because it obviously is part of the whole process. It has to be done at some level to support the business.
We want to have at least some predictable performers.
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Churches should not be directly involved in politics.
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Instead of the traditional emphasis on the sanctity of life, bioethics began to stress the quality of life, meaning that many damaged humans, young and old, don't qualify for personhood because their lives have lost value.
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You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.
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The principal advantage of the non-parental lifestyle is that on Christmas Eve you need not be struck dumb by the three most terrifying words that the government allows to be printed on any product: "Some assembly required."
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No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz.
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Do we really need more romance attached to the act of blowing people away?