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View More NewsWhen he ran for a second term in 2024, President Donald Trump pledged to abolish the U.S. Department of Education. More than 18 months into his term, not only is the department still very much alive, but it’s carrying out ill-informed and seemingly politically motivated investigations of school districts. For example, the administration has targeted transgender girls—born biologically male but presenting outwardly as female—who compete in women’s sports. “Under Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 (Title IX), educational institutions receiving Federal funds cannot deny women an equal opportunity to participate in sports,” according to a February 2025…
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What follows is an excerpt from Advocacy in Literary Studies, a report published earlier this month under the auspices of the Vanderbilt–WashU Commission on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences. Its Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences was published in April and excerpted in Quillette.Mathematicians and physicists typically do not instruct students in the history of their disciplines. What is old is outdated. That is not true of great literature. As nineteenth-century British essayist William Hazlitt pointed out in his essay Why the Arts Are Not Progressive?,…
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Supposed whitehat hackers behind Sunday’s Liquid Network breach have returned 3,400 of the 4,000 BTC they took, but nearly $47 million in bitcoin is…
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