CNN.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam at Harvard, 2015: "Perhaps it is a natural condition of an insecure human race to seek security in a sense of superiority.... [However] what is needed, as the former Governor General of Canada Adrienne Clarkson said, is a readiness 'to listen to your neighbour, even when you may not particularly like him.' Is that message clear? You listen to people you don't like!"] ARTICLE: American universities seem committed to every kind of diversity except intellectual diversity. Conservative voices and views are being silenced entirely as the campus police go after serious conservative thinkers. Colleges promise to give their undergraduates a liberal education, which at its root, the word pertains to liberty. And, at the heart of liberty, is freedom of speech. People always understood this meant protecting and listening to speech with which you disagreed. However, there is an anti-intellectualism on the left. An attitude of self-righteousness that says we are so pure, we're so morally superior, we cannot bear to hear an idea with which we disagree. Liberals think they are tolerant but often they aren't. In 2016, a Pew study found that Democrats ...

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THEFEDERALIST.COM -- Children who attend Christian schools are significantly more likely to marry and stay married as adults than peers who attend public schools. Strikingly, the study found that children of poorer parents had significantly better marriage and childbearing outcomes than children of wealthier parents if they attended Christian schools. Numerous studies have demonstrated the superiority of private and Christian schools over public schools for many societally beneficial outcomes, such as lower rates of crime, higher rates of educational achievement, increased patriotism, more volunteering, higher racial integration, and a higher tolerance for religious and political differences. Research has also established that attending a Christian school makes a child significantly more likely to remain in the faith as an adult. This new study suggests ...

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YOUTUBE.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2011: "I have seen situations where energy has been produced by windmills, by solar batteries and the damage that they have done to the environment is simply incredible.... We still don't really know a great deal about the technology of these new energy sources."] ARTICLE: In this 7-minute video I highlight the dark side of so called green energy and show why they are much worse for the planet than claimed. In particular, they create more pollution, more environmental destruction and exploit poor countries. All this of course comes as no surprise to those who have seen Michael Moore's recent viral documentary: "Planet of the Humans." ...

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[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] -- YOUTUBE.COM -- CSLEWISDOODLE -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam at Columbia University, 2006: "How can we inspire people to reach beyond ... unprincipled relativism?"] ARTICLE: Until modern times no thinker of the first rank ever doubted that our judgements of good and evil were rational, objective judgements. However, the modern view does not believe that value judgements are really judgements at all. Instead they are subjective sentiments, or attitudes, produced in a community and we merely express socially conditioned feelings when we say something is good. But if this is so, then we might have been conditioned to feel otherwise. "Perhaps," thinks the reformer or the educational expert, "it would be better if we were. Let us improve our morality." Out of this apparently innocent idea comes the fatal superstition that there is no objective standard of good [but only relative standards] and that men creates values. Everyone is indignant when he hears ...

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IMDB.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Trailer and documentary are essential viewing for everyone.] ARTICLE: Set in the dark underbelly of Silicon Valley, The Social Dilemma fuses investigative documentary with enlightening narrative drama. Expert testimony from tech whistle-blowers exposes our disturbing predicament: the services Big Tech provides-search engines, networks, instant information, etc. are merely the candy that lures us to bite. Once we're hooked and coming back for more, the real commodity they sell is their prowess to influence and manipulate us. ...

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INDEPENDENT.CO.UK -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Essential viewing for everyone.] ARTICLE: Netflix's new docu-drama recruits Silicon Valley whistleblowers to explain why they regret building the likes of Facebook and Twitter and why they might have unwittingly started society's destruction. You don't get a much clearer statement of social media's dangers than an ex-Facebook executive's claim that: "In the shortest time horizon I'm most worried about civil war." Its brilliance lies is in laying bare a vast range of complex problems with compelling clarity. "Social media starts to dig deeper and deeper down into the brain stem and take over kids' sense of self-worth and identity," explains ex-Google employee Tristan Harris. At Stanford University, whose psychology professors teach ways that tech can be used to reprogramme the way your brain works until ...

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