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Robby Soave

Robby Soave is a senior editor at Reason magazine and author of Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump.

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NOT EVEN CLOSE

Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Not a Victim of Cancel Culture

If it’s wrong to punish her for the views she expressed on political topics, democracy itself is wrong: Picking and choosing leaders who have sound opinions is the whole point.

Robby Soave

Dark Days

Can the First Amendment Survive 2017?

<p>We’ve reached a mind-boggling place when the woman who made the deeply sympathetic trans film <i>Boys Don’t Cry</i> gets hooted off a campus. This has to stop.</p>

Robby Soave

articles/2017/02/02/milo-yiannopoulos-feeds-on-your-violent-protests-so-does-donald-trump/170202-Soave-berkeley-tease_kuaey9
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Anarchists4Trump

Milo Feeds on Your Violence

Violent tactics drove voters into the arms of the more right-wing, law-and-order candidate in the 1960s and 1970s. Hasn’t the left learned from that mistake?

Robby Soave

articles/2016/11/16/elite-campuses-offer-students-coloring-books-puppies-to-get-over-trump/161115-Soave-trump-coloring-tease_lsayjb
KIDS TODAY

Campus Cure for Trump? Coloring Books!

The post-election freak-out on elite campuses is total, and is made all the worse because students on these campuses never meet anyone who disagrees with them.

Robby Soave

articles/2016/10/30/campus-costume-cops-ask-students-to-report-inappropriate-halloween-costumes/161029-_Soave-campus-halloween-tease_ginkx9
opinion
‘Threat level meter’

The Great Campus Halloween Freakout

So much for the one day of the year when it’s supposed to be OK to be someone else.

Robby Soave

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LIFE’S TOUGH; GROW UP

And Now, College Classes in Adulthood?!

At East Carolina University, the poor dears are so stressed the school is offering ‘resilience’ education—a fancy of way of saying how to be a grown-up.

Robby Soave

articles/2016/06/23/libertarian-ticket-makes-its-case-as-big-parties-vie-to-reap-political-gain-from-orlando-massacre/160622-soave-libertarian-townhall-tease_dz5eli
That’s the Ticket

Better Stoner & Tippler Than Hawk or Nut

The socially liberal, fiscally conservative former state executives asked the nation Wednesday on CNN to ‘reject the extremes of both parties.’

Robby Soave

articles/2016/06/07/the-craziest-demands-of-college-kids-in-2016/160606-soave-crazy-college-demands-tease2_idjfqo
Me Generation

Craziest Demands of College Kids in 2016

No grades, no Shakespeare, and no students of different stripes—welcome to campus insanity in 2016.

Robby Soave

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NEVER ENDS

Trump Troll Popularized by PC Mob

The latest salvo by the PC police on college campuses may have made a Trump troll more palatable.

Robby Soave

articles/2016/05/23/on-a-college-campus-don-t-try-to-tell-a-joke/160522-soave-jokes-college-tease_unm2wt
MADNESS

Why You Can’t Joke on a  College Campus

If you hurt someone’s feelings, or might have potentially hurt their feelings, campus bias response teams are ready to pounce.

Robby Soave

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