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<title><![CDATA[Conor Friedersdorf - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16357.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Conor Friedersdorf]]></description><category domain="16357">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Spencer Pratt and the Temptations of Populism]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conor Friedersdorf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The long-shot candidate for L.A. mayor has run an effective campaign. Can he tap into populist energy without alienating Angelenos?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How To Move On From the Worst of Identity Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/how-to-move-on-from-the-worst-of-identity-politics/ar-AA1vUidp?cvid=b22fc55611b04967c817eedf16fcf268&amp;ei=7</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Conor Friedersdorf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Supporters of identity politics were mistaken in assuming that the same majority would sign on to pursuing equity instead of equality.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Students for Pogroms in Israel]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-moral-failure-of-campus-hamas-apologists/ar-AA1idgSF</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conor Friedersdorf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Campus politics in America irrevocably changed this week when student groups that champion the noble goal of justice for Palestinians endorsed the evil means of war crimes in pursuit of it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Free Speech Is Not Just for Conservatives]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/free-speech-is-not-just-for-conservatives/ar-AA19pGST</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conor Friedersdorf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An administrator at West Texas A&amp;M University canceled a student drag show'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'a clear violation of the First Amendment.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Elon Musk's Buffoonery Misleads His Critics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/how-elon-musk-s-buffoonery-misleads-his-critics/ar-AA1530NV?ocid=EMMX&amp;cvid=ac314359dfaa45a8ab95213773023c4f</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Conor Friedersdorf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What I learned while binge-watching social media's hottest melodrama]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Reason Dems Are Losing Ground on Education]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-real-reason-democrats-are-losing-ground-on-education/ar-AAZNj3H</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conor Friedersdorf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On many bygone Election Days, voters trusted Democrats more than Republicans on the issue of education'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'but that may not hold this November, if'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' recent polling'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' is to be believed. The American Federation of Teachers commissioned a survey of 1,758 likely voters in seven...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Congress Should Step Up on Pandemic Policy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/congress-should-step-up-on-pandemic-policy/ar-AASPIXH</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Conor Friedersdorf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sweeping decisions that change how society operates should be made by the legislative branch, not unelected bureaucrats.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Criminal-Justice Reformers Adjust to Rising Crime?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/can-criminal-justice-reformers-adjust-rising-crime/621205/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Conor Friedersdorf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As a long decline in murder rates reverses, proponents of draconian law enforcement shouldn't be allowed to monopolize the discussion.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Omicron and the Return to Normalcy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/omicron-and-the-return-to-normalcy/ar-AASsTos</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Conor Friedersdorf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The holiday break is over for most. How should America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s colleges, high schools, and elementary schools handle the winter surge of COVID-19 cases associated with the Omicron variant? What do you like most or least about how your educational institution is handling the pandemic?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Defund the Police' Is a Politcal Liability]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/criminal-justice-reformers-chose-the-wrong-slogan/ar-AAN4qze</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conor Friedersdorf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Defund the Police is a disaster. Under-policing is a form of oppression too.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The California Dream Is Dying]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/california-dream-dying/619509/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conor Friedersdorf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The once dynamic state is closing the door on economic opportunity.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Critical Race Theory Is Making Both Parties Flip-Flop]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/north-carolina-critical-race-theory-ban-free-speech/619381/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conor Friedersdorf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The battle over teaching race in North Carolina schools prompts an ideological role reversal on both antidiscrimination and speech.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The U.S. Needs an NTSB for Police Killings]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/us-needs-ntsb-police-killings/618624/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conor Friedersdorf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every police killing, like every plane crash, warrants careful review by a federal agency.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When a Slogan Becomes the Curriculum]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/should-black-lives-matter-agenda-be-taught-school/618277/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conor Friedersdorf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A curriculum inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement is spreading, raising questions about the line between education and indoctrination.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[My January 6 Nightmare]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/my-january-6-trump-protest-nightmare/617558/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Conor Friedersdorf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A lame duck's deadly last hurrah]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Take the Shutdown Skeptics Seriously]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/take-shutdown-skeptics-seriously/611419/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conor Friedersdorf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is not a straightforward battle between a pro-human and a pro-economy camp.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Kamala Was a Top Cop]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/kamala-cop-record/596758/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conor Friedersdorf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If elected, can the candidate be trusted to hold government officials accountable and oversee a progressive criminal justice system? Her past says no.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Hate Makes the Squad Stronger]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/trump-squad-dupe-supporters/594607/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conor Friedersdorf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president gives his opponents media attention and enhances their influence on American life.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Ails the Right Isn't (Just) Racism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/what-if-left-was-right-race/595777/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conor Friedersdorf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An authoritarian fear of difference best explains the intolerance sweeping the Republican Party.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Progressive Nonargument Against Biden]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/progressive-biden/593410/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conor Friedersdorf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Media elites aren't talking about his electability or his policy proposals.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Damage That Harvard Has Done]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/harvard-ronald-sullivan-weinstein/589300/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conor Friedersdorf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The institution removed Ronald Sullivan as faculty dean after students criticized his decision to help mount Harvey Weinstein's legal defense.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Left's Effort to Silence Camille Paglia]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/camille-paglia-uarts-left-deplatform/587125/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conor Friedersdorf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Art students are trying to get the social critic fired from a job she has held for three decades.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ilhan Omar Falls Victim to the Outrage Exhibitionists]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/ilhan-omar/586993/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conor Friedersdorf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In attacking the representative over a small, unintentional slight, Donald Trump and the populist right are displaying bad faith.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why I'm Casting a Party-Line Vote for Democrats]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-friedersdorf-why-independents-should-vote-party-20181101-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conor Friedersdorf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here's why independents should vote Democratic in the House races.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Deplorability Is No Longer a Dealbreaker]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/what-donald-trump-supporters-cannot-be-trusted-to-do/551201/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Conor Friedersdorf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last month, Mollie Hemingway, the Fox News contributor and senior editor at'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The Federalist, declared herself a Donald Trump supporter for the first time. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t a Trump supporter,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' the headline of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' her'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Washington Post'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' op-ed'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' stated.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I am now.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' She...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Attack on Democracy in San Jose]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/anti-trump-protesters-attacked-all-of-us-in-san-jose/485444/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conor Friedersdorf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In San Jose on Thursday, a volatile crowd outside a Donald Trump rally assaulted numerous attendees. They punched a man in the face, knocking him to the ground; bloodied another man by bludgeoning the side of his head with a duffel bag; trapped a woman against a glass door, pelting her...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Perils of Writing a Provocative Email at Yale]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/the-peril-of-writing-a-provocative-email-at-yale/484418/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conor Friedersdorf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last fall, student protesters at Yale University demanded that Professor Nicholas Christakis, an academic star who has successfully mentored Ivy League undergraduates for years, step down from his position as faculty-in-residence at Silliman College, along with his wife, Erika...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Emory's Student Activists Are Fueling Trump's Rise]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/a-letter-to-emory-please-stop-fueling-trumpism/475356/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Conor Friedersdorf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The billionaire candidate couldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??t have created more perfect foils for a candidacy built on resentment.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Threat to Free Speech on College Campuses]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/the-glaring-evidence-that-free-speech-is-threatened-on-campus/471825/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Conor Friedersdorf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At a recent Intelligence Squared debate, an audience filled an auditorium at Yale University to weigh the timely proposition, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Free speech is threatened on campus.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' The debate concerned higher education generally, not just the host institution. And at the event'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Food Fight at Oberlin College]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/the-food-fight-at-oberlin-college/421401/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Conor Friedersdorf</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, students at Oberlin made national headlines for casting complaints about bad dining-hall food'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'a perennial lament of collegians'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'as a problematic social-justice failure. Word spread via people who saw their behavior as political correctness run amok. The...]]></description>
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