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February 25, 2009     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
New York University students, or at least a few dozen of them, have just set several records for student occupations of a campus building: ...
 
April 4, 2007     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
Some British schools are dropping lessons on the Holocaust and the Crusades, seeking to avoid antagonizing Muslim students. A Historical Association report, funded by the ...
 
June 4, 2006     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
Peter Beinart thinks the left needs more anti-totalitarian liberals like Harry Truman and Scoop Jackson, and fewer anti-imperialist liberals (think moveon.org, Michael Moore and George ...
 
April 16, 2006     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
In a surprising editorial, The Washington Post deviated from the conventional anti-Bush media position on two counts. It said President Bush was right to declassify ...
 
March 19, 2006     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
Like many news junkies, I've noticed that stories putting Muslims in a bad light tend to be sketchy and underreported. A minor example is this ...
 
February 12, 2006     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
Is the biggest issue in the cartoon controversy free expression, sensitivity or fear? One vote here for none of the above. The key question may ...
 
February 5, 2006     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
One of the first things I wrote after getting this job as a columnist was a defense of Muslim sensibilities in the Salman Rushdie case. ...
 
August 8, 2005     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
In the wake of the London bombings, New York City is now searching the bags of subway riders. As you might expect, this is ...
 
August 1, 2005     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
Isn't it awful, a friend said at dinner the other night, that 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died since the U.S. invasion? When I asked ...
 
July 25, 2005     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
David Koepp, who wrote the screenplay for War of the Worlds, says the Martian attackers in the film represent the American military, while the ...
 

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