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  Mark Weidman

  

  Feature: 'Religious left' emerging as U.S. political force in Trump era

  Reuters - Scott Malone

  (Reuters) - Since President Donald Trump's election, monthly lectures on social justice at the 600-seat Gothic chapel of New York's Union Theological Seminary have been filled to capacity with crowds three times what they usually draw. In January, the 181-year-old Upper Manhattan graduate school, …

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  Mark Weidman

  

  Why Both Left And Right Are Political Hypocrites And What To Do About It

  thefederalist.com - Jonathan Bethune

  What results when a society abandons principles? I do not mean specific principles, I mean the very concept of a principle. Here are some examples. In …

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  Mark Weidman

  

  The student Left’s culture of intolerance is creating a new generation of conservatives

  The Telegraph - Charlie Peters

  Student demands for censorship get a lot of coverage. Spiked Online’s Free Speech University Rankings, now in its third annual edition, argues that there is a “crisis of free speech on campus”. By analysing the censorious policies and actions that have taken place on British campuses, Spiked …

• https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/make-trump%E2%80%99s-america-ungovernable-african-american-struggles-are-key

  

  Mark Weidman

  Feb 19, 2017

• http://bowdoinorient.com/article/11811

  

  Mark Weidman

  Feb 19, 2017
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  Mark Weidman

  

  Opinion | Are Liberals Helping Trump? (Published 2017)

  The New York Times - Sabrina Tavernise

  Jeffrey Medford, a small-business owner in South Carolina, voted reluctantly for Donald Trump. As a conservative, he felt the need to choose the Republican. But some things are making him feel uncomfortable — parts of Mr. Trump’s travel ban, for example, and the recurring theme of his apparent …