Syria, Linda Sarsour & The New Left & New Right

The concepts of “Left & Right” are being reworked in the face of a global crisis. The 21st century is new political terrain and the old rules are being rewritten.

Caleb T. Maupin
By Caleb T. Maupin
Women's march organizer, Linda Sarsour. (Photo: still from #InequalityIs: Linda Sarsour on inequality and race and religion)

For many people in the west, the traditional political compass seems broken, and “left” and “right” are almost indistinguishable in a confused political mess. The controversy surrounding the Arab-American figure now embraced by the Democratic Party, Linda Sarsour, illustrates this perfectly. In Syria, it is very clear who the “right” and the

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Chilling ‘Professor Watchlist’ Aims To ‘Expose’ Leftist Educators

‘It would be easier to dismiss this rather silly project if the United States had not just elected a president who shouts over attempts at rational discourse and reactionary majorities in both houses of Congress’

Deirdre Fulton
By Deirdre Fulton
Charlie Kirk, of Turning Point USA, participates in a panel discussion during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md., Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

"I am dangerous not to America but to the people soon to be in charge of it." So says one of roughly 200 college professors recently named to a conservative website's "Professor Watchlist"—a round-up of academics accused of "discriminat[ing] against conservative students and advanc[ing] leftist propaganda in the classroom." The list is based on

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