Liberalism used to mean searching for truth before accepting an accusation is true. That was the old-school ACLU kind of liberal. The new kind? As National Review‘s Rich Lowry writes in Politico Magazine, it’s “braying for collective justice, regardless of the evidence, to right historic wrongs.” The campus kangaroo courts that have taken hold over […]
Bias response teams have been created at more than 200 colleges, covering the vast majority of states, in spite of the threat they pose to constitutionally protected speech. Are team members at least trained to recognize First Amendment rights? Not that the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education could find, an official told Carolina Journal‘s Dan […]
Cass Sunstein taught at the University of Chicago law school for 27 years before running the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration. He’s now at Harvard Law School, and he’s concerned that students aren’t getting a good education in several fields. Not just at Harvard – at all top-ranked […]
It is commonly understood that college students are too sensitive. But a recent op-ed at National Review Online tries to understand exactly why they are such snowflakes–and it points a damning finger at college administrators. Columnist George Will writes about what politician Daniel Patrick Moynihan describes as “the leakage of reality from American life.” He argues that […]