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<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Zimmerman - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/22107.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jonathan Zimmerman]]></description><category domain="22107">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[On Israel, More Democrats Should Be Praising Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5554010-trump-success-gaza-ceasefire/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Zimmerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In December of 1983, the Rev. Jesse Jackson'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' went to Syria'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' to seek the release of an American airman who had been shot down there. That went against the wishes of President Ronald Reagan, who thought Jackson was'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' grandstanding'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' to jump-start his own campaign'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' for the White House....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Shut Down Free Speech in Kirk's Name]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/16/dont-shut-down-free-speech-in-charlie-kirks-name/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Zimmerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The slain activist engaged in robust debate on campus. Curtailing the free speech of those who criticize him a betrayal of his legacy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Must Seize the Mantle of Law &amp; Order]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5349456-democrats-mayor-bass-condemns-violence/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Zimmerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' photo'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' pinging around the blogosphere of a pallet of bricks, supposedly placed near Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities for use by '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Democratic militants'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' during the recent unrest in Los Angeles. The accompanying post says that the bricks were paid...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Our Universities Need To Do Now]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/5253080-harvard-university-free-expression/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Zimmerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Finally!'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' That was my first reaction to'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Harvard'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s letter'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' on Monday, which pledged to resist the Trump administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s attacks on its autonomy.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' You can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t have a free university or a free society when the government is dictating what you can teach, think or...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New Republican Political Correctness]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/5179368-trump-gop-political-correctness/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Zimmerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Remember when Republicans opposed political correctness, because it inhibited free speech?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Protect Free Speech To Fight Antisemitism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/antisemitism-free-speech-college-campuses-university-of-pennsylvania-liz-magill-tim-scott-20231112.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Zimmerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[That sounds like a contradiction, but if we erect new rules to restrict what we can say about Jews, Israel, or anything else we'll lose the ability to function as teachers, scholars, and citizens.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Higher Ed's Founding Promise]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/08/27/higher-eds-founding-promise/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Zimmerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From colonial schools to the land grant era, America's universities pledged to serve the public by making college affordable. It's time to hold them to it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Save Democracy? Talk to Someone You Don&rsquo;t Agree With]]></title>
							<link>https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/politics-discussions-students-democracy-20220714.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Zimmerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Call it the American Hour. Each week, for 60 minutes, students will discuss a different controversial issue in national politics. Students in Philly would be paired with people in Central PA.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Sex Ed Wars Will Never End]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/11/the-sex-ed-wars-will-never-end-00031256</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Zimmerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even in a less religious society, there's no easy answer to the sex-ed debate.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why We're So Divided Over Education]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/12/25/socrates-jefferson-and-bryan-at-the-school-board-meeting/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Zimmerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Socrates, Jefferson, and Bryan at the School Board Meeting.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[School Battles Heat Up as Dems Push Critical Theory]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/09/19/history-culture-wars-schools-america-divided-512614</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Zimmerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The history of education battles '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' from fights over evolution to critical race theory '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' shows why the country's divisions are growing sharper.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Liberals, Stand Up for This Professor]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-liberals-stand-up-for-this-professor-20210909-d3aqkns4cvcpbic324jw7p23s4-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Zimmerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Oppressive. Terrifying. Disgusting. Those are some of the nicer words that my fellow liberals have used to denounce GOP efforts to restrict teaching around race in American classrooms. In over 20 states, Republican lawmakers have proposed measures that would prohibit instruction of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Must Denounce Idea of Speech as Violence]]></title>
							<link>https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/We-must-denounce-the-idea-of-speech-as-violence-13656639.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Zimmerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When the actor Jussie Smollett charged that two men shouting this is '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'MAGA country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' had attacked him, also yelling racist and homophobic taunts, my fellow liberals were quick to blame the rise in such incidents on President Trump and his supporters who want to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Make...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Overturning Roe Could Remake U.S. Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/149596/overturning-roe-v-wade-remake-american-politics</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Zimmerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The original decision gave conservatives a boost for decades. Overturning it could lead to a liberal resurgence.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Place Franken in Same Frame as Weinstein]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/absurd-place-al-franken-frame-weinstein-article-1.3643881</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Zimmerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When we start equating every kind of misconduct, we empty the words of their meaning.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[College Students Rejecting Freedom of Speech]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/commentary/20170419_College_students_rejecting_freedom_of_speech.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Zimmerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a nationwide survey in 2015-2016, 71 percent of incoming freshmen agreed that ?colleges should prohibit racist/sexist speech on campus.? And 43 percent said that colleges should have the right to ban ?extreme speakers.?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Governors May Not Have Edge in 2016]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1224-zimmerman-governors-turned-presidents-20141224-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Zimmerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 1947, U.S. historian Wilfred E. Binkley took stock of the 13 men who had been president since the end of the Civil War and reached a stark conclusion: Governorship was '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'a training school for successful presidents.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' The seven ex-governors on the list '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' including both...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Seize a &quot;Sputnik Moment&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20110127_How_to_seize_a__Sputnik_moment_.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Zimmerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In his State of the Union Address this week, President Obama pledged to  help American schools recruit and train 100,000 new science and math  teachers over the next 10 years. But he left out the scientists and the  mathematicians - as well as the economists, anthropologists, political ...]]></description>
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