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Dr. Knippenberg dubbed “an American rarity” in The Washington Post

In a recent Washington Post article, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and political commentator George Will recognized Oglethorpe Politics Professor Joe Knippenberg as “an America rarity — a professor with a good sense and a sense of humor.”

Will called out Dr. Knippenberg’s tongue-in-cheek blog “A Modest Proposal for Handling Offensive Place Names,” in which “he suggests that, in order to spare everyone discomfort, cities, buildings and other things should be given names that are inoffensive because they have no meaning whatsoever. Give things perfectly vacuous names like those given to car models — Acura, Elantra and Sentra.”

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