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The Gable Standard: 015 Public Square: Free Speech on Campus
Academic freedom, speech codes, and ideological conformity as threats to the core mission of liberal education
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Academic freedom, speech codes, and ideological conformity as threats to the core mission of liberal education
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Virgil Marrow confronts a consumer privacy technologist with his ironclad evidence that smartphone microphones are always on, always recording, and feeding data to government and corporate surveillance networks.
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If human judgment is atrophying under AI delegation, should we design systems that deliberately preserve it — accepting reduced efficiency — or accept the transition to AI-primary decision-making and rebuild accountability structures around the systems rather than the humans?
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The second half of Ida B. Wells's life — from her arrival in Chicago through her death in 1931, the decades of historical erasure that followed, and the long process of writing her back into the record she made.
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The Declaration of Independence read as what it was — a legal brief for secession addressed to the world — and what happens when a document with no legal force becomes the standard every later generation measures the country against.
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UFOs and government disclosure — what the UAP hearings really proved and what they're still hiding
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Empirical scrutiny of the claim that AI delegation degrades independent professional judgment — testing the atrophy thesis against domain evidence, the aviation analogy's limits, the measurement problem, and the training pipeline question.
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Voting accessibility as an institutional design question: documenting US barriers to ballot access, comparing American practices with peer democracies, engaging conservative fraud concerns with evidence, and prescribing concrete reforms grounded in international precedent and domestic...
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Reclaiming environmental stewardship as an inherently conservative principle rooted in Burkean inheritance, religious duty, the hunter-conservationist tradition, and intergenerational obligation — and distinguishing principled stewardship from climate alarmism, regulatory excess, and utopian...
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Ida B. Wells's anti-lynching campaign as investigative journalism — the People's Grocery lynching, the destruction of the Free Speech, exile, the pamphlets, the British tours, and the systematic empirical investigation of racial terror that the compressed version of civil rights history has...
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The Declaration of Independence read as what it was — a legal brief for secession addressed to the world — and what happens when a document with no legal force becomes the standard every later generation measures the country against.
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Space Force as a cover story for existing orbital weapons platforms, directed energy weapons, satellite-based surveillance, space-based digital control systems, and what happens when the scientific voice leaves the conversation