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Best of the Web, October 22nd, 2017

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Best of the Web, October 22nd, 2017

Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment
Nasty, Brutish, and Fat: Of Hobbes and Harvey Weinstein John Podhoretz, Commentary

The Sam Kriss Problem Cathy Young, Medium

Unintended Consequences of Sexual Harassment Scandals Claire Cain Miller, The New York Times

Culture and Civilization
Manners and Political Life George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures

Teenage Wasteland Claire Lehmann, Commentary

Free Speech/Education
Does Disruption Violate Free Speech?
 Howard Gillman and Erwin Chemerinsky, The Chronicle of Higher Education

Why Are Millennials Wary of Freedom? Clay Routledge, The New York Times

UPenn Teacher Justifies Her Refusal to Call on White Male Students Robby Soave, Reason

Race Relations in America
Birth of a White Supremacist Andrew Marantz, New Yorker 

The Nightmare From Which Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Trying Not to Awake Oliver Traldi, Areo Magazine

On Ta-Nehisi Coates and Race Glenn Loury and John McWhorter, Bloggingheads

The Russian Revolution’s Centenary
Martin Amis on Lenin’s Deadly Revolution
 Martin Amis, The New York Times

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