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The Confused Conservative

Conservatives do battle with words and facts, but that approach doesn’t work so well when liberals alter the meaning of words with abandon.
The Confused Conservative
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Mark Bauerlein
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Last month, a poll by RealClear Opinion Research on American attitudes toward First Amendment freedoms revealed a remarkable change among liberals. Historically, liberalism has treated individual rights and free speech as absolute values. State power is to be suspected. The minority viewpoint is to be granted respect and so is privacy.
Mark Bauerlein
Mark Bauerlein
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Mark Bauerlein is an emeritus professor of English at Emory University. His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, The Washington Post, the TLS, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.
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