Tulane drowns in Wave of wokeness
(Dec. 18, Nola.com) The situation: Tulane University under national fire for issues relating to “diversity,” to its claims that “racism and sexism are fundamentally present in all American institutions,” and […]
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College students need to join the real world
(Oct. 31) Considering a disturbing recent survey of college students showing negligible support for what First Amendment protections really mean, and after nearly a decade of campus foolishness along similar […]
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Courts can strike three times, including for 3-strikes law
California court slaps down a Soros District Attorney (Official Washington Examiner editorial, June 5): As a matter of both law and good policy, the California State Court of Appeals well […]
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Bad journalism and bad censorship proposal
Two pieces related only because they both involve mistaken ideas about mass communication. Buffalo mayor rightly upset, but wrong to suggest banning speech (May 18): Responding to a horrific evil, […]
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Two Pence, for Pence, but against whiny collegians
Two pieces on former Vice President Mike Pence making news of the right sort. (To read the whole columns, please click on the links embedded in the headlines.) Pence’s ‘Freedom […]
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Supreme Court has another chance to protect free speech
(Feb. 22) The Supreme Court has given itself another chance to say definitively that laws that compel particular forms of expression are null and void. As well it should. The court agreed Tuesday […]
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Justice Alito was on point about threats to First Amendment
(Nov. 16) The liberal media meltdown about last week’s speech by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is silly and hypocritical. The speech was not only acceptable but insightful and appropriate. […]
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Colleges on FIRE, or going to the dogs
Three pieces, all of them bad news from colleges. For the first two, follow the links embedded in the headlines…. Notre Dame students wants racial quotas on, yes, reading assignments. […]
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Supreme Court wrongly punts NR’s free speech case
(Nov. 25) The Supreme Court severely undermined free speech on Monday. It erred by refusing to hear an appeal of a defamation suit filed by a controversial climate scientist against […]
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Finally, a college president stands against leftist repression
In a time when dissent-trampling thought police reign supreme on most college campuses, we should praise the rare university official who insists on fairness and free expression. Witness Maud Mandel, […]
