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Moral resilience can save the day | Universities are supposed to encourage students to engage with difficult and challenging ideas, beliefs and situations. Sadly, many universities have strayed far from that mission, writes author and therapist Michele DeMarco. But there is a better path. |
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As a university vice president, DeMarco writes, "every day, I survey the precarious landscape of moral offenses, complaints and activations, carefully assessing which ones might explode, sending the community into an uproar, and tiptoe through the harrowing task of crafting the appropriate 'safe' language, praying one of the chosen words won't detonate some hidden trigger." "In the wake of the Hamas-Israel war," she writes, "this task has been near impossible." Students on all sides of the conflict were triggered, and everyone was full of moral outrage, which seems to be ubiquitous on college campuses today. It would be wrong for universities to try to extinguish the outrage, she writes. Instead, they should focus on instilling moral resilience as an antidote to moral outrage. DeMarco explains the nascent concept and its benefits, listing some steps administrators can take to "embrace a proactive and sustainable model of moral resilience." "It's time to get on a path of moral resilience — it's what's necessary for building communities of conscience and courage." Read the op-ed at TheHill.com. |
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By Michael Levitt, Fromer-Wexler senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy |
Israeli officials remain committed to dismantling the Hamas governance project in Gaza, but even if the IDF falls short of that goal, whatever remnant of Hamas endures in Gaza at the end of this war will present a fraction of the threat it once did. |
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By Max Burns, Democratic strategist |
One thing can be said for Elon Musk: the guy works fast. He's managed to lose 71 percent of X's value in just over a year, while alienating major brands and mainstreaming a 105 percent surge in neo-Nazi and antisemitic hate speech — an explosion of unmoderated hatred without precedent on any other major social network. |
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By Thomas P. Vartanian, executive director of the Financial Technology & Cybersecurity Center |
The meteoric growth of cryptocurrency since 2009 has been as remarkable as its ability to fend off regulation, even though some have all the earmarks of a con game. Operators can collect billions of real dollars in return for a computer code that has value only to the extent that the fools who purchase it anticipate finding even greater fools to take it off their hands. What could go wrong? | | |
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By Adam Summers research fellow at the Independent Institute |
California politicians seem to have a penchant for doing whatever they can to reduce housing affordability and otherwise increase the cost of living in the state. The minimum wage is just one more example of this. |
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