Our China syndrome
By James Boyle | December 6, 2016As Duke faculty members, one of the most important skills we teach is how to think critically, how to make good decisions, how to avoid cognitive biases and faulty logic.
As Duke faculty members, one of the most important skills we teach is how to think critically, how to make good decisions, how to avoid cognitive biases and faulty logic.
Hasta la victoria.
There has been considerable debate recently about the proposed Combined Heat and Power project (CHP), which would be a joint effort between Duke Energy and Duke University.
SEIU is on the cutting edge of everything that is wrong with the labor movement.
The only path to success will be a path of understanding and acceptance of those with different views and ways of life.
Leave it to radical leftists to destroy perfectly good, traditional holidays.
Students commented on how many well-intentioned programs had been reduced to another box to check as part of the Duke experience.
With the recent filing of the union petition, a group of engineering students has realized that they cannot just sit this out and wait for it to blow over.
The Durham and Regional Affairs Committee of Duke Student Government realizes you live in Durham—but we want to make it your home.
After the election, emotions are still raw for many and energies have channeled into fever-pitched cries to “FIX THIS!” I agree that some sober review of our politics is called for.
I'm facing the reality that what matters to me, and many of the people I am surrounded with on a daily basis, is not necessarily what matters to most, and this oversight was a critical fault in my views for the election.
When I applied to Duke as a student who wanted to enter the arts, I thought I would spend the next four years of my life amongst a sea of pre-professionals without an inkling of resources or contacts.
What would you say to a citizen in 1930s Germany who said “I do not agree with systematically persecuting the Jews but I do not want to force that belief on my country”?
The status quo, business-as-usual way of obtaining energy simply will not succeed in a century of urgent global ecological realities.
I fear for the next generation of kids like me, who grow up colorful in lily-white areas.
Today, a majority of my country told me that I am less than human. A majority of Americans decided that my Latin skin denotes inferiority.
Regardless of who wins the election, the Republican Party will have to undergo an autopsy.
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Ours is a nation that still struggles with structural and institutional racism and police brutality, and has contributed in no small part to the climate change that is already wreaking havoc upon the globe.
Dialogue is not meant to be a substitute for action; and indeed, meetings with administrators, designs of new policies and proposals for different programs underway are all concurrent with these conversations.