Common Sense: Five questions for last week’s student protesters

Harrison Leonard Contributing Columnist 1. What did you hope to achieve by disrupting classes, blocking traffic, and being distractingly obnoxious? Can you think of any example in recent history where student protests prompted government to do anything, other than arrest law-breakers? I support your right to non-violent expression; despite how pathetic I found last week’s walkouts. But I would challenge you for next time that the most effective form of dissent is rooted in reason and rational persuasion, not primitive… Read more

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(Don’t) Question (My) Authority!

Harrison Leonard Contributing columnist Left-wing academia (a redundancy, I know) has been waging war on the evils of capitalism since, well, forever. I suppose that’s easy when you are instrumental in cultivating those beliefs through revisionist history. If you are going to attack capitalism as the source of all moral degeneracy and economic disparity in America, you had better have a working understanding of what capitalism is, and what it isn’t. A truly free market puts a wall of separation… Read more

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