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More ‘Mallard Fillmore’
For the , Mallard Fillmore focuses on the problem of campus speech codes. In recent months, as the Larry Summers, Ward Churchill, and Columbia MEALAC department controversies have dominated the news, I think we are beginning to reach a “tipping point” of public awareness on the problems on our campuses. With the release of a demonstrating the overwhelming ideological dominance of the left in university faculties, there is little question that Americans will increasingly set their sights on reforming the . As we have often said, ֭’s goal is to create a true marketplace of ideas rather than replace one form of unsustainable indoctrination with another.
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