Professor William Jacobson of Legal Insurrection reports on the latest in the campaign against him: Earlier this week, the Black Law Students Association circulated an email statement to the Cornell Law School community repeating many of the false and misleading … Continue reading →
Turley has taken up the cause: Twenty-one colleagues at Cornell signed a June 9, a letter denouncing unnamed “commentators… attached to Ivy League Institutions” as calls were made to the Dean to have Jacobson fired. The professors lashed out against … Continue reading →
I don’t send people links to articles or videos, ordinarily – and by “people,” I mean liberals, because most of the people I know fall into that category. I learned many years ago that (a) they were unlikely to look … Continue reading →
…then why not erase history, ignore facts, and create your own truth? Especially in the cause of fighting whatever is defined as racism these days. The definition has become extraordinarily broad amidst the paroxysms of rage and the demands for … Continue reading →
[UPDATE: Professor Jacobson will be appearing on the Laura Ingraham show on Fox News at approximately 10:45 Eastern time.] Professor Jacobson of Legal Insurrection (a blog for which I also write periodically) has announced that there’s a campaign to get … Continue reading →
After I had the idea for the title of this post, I wondered if it had been said before. It has – by Jonah Goldberg back in late 2007 in his book Liberal Fascism. Whatever you think of Goldberg’s stances … Continue reading →
…and it will bleed into the non-academic world soon enough, and the Overton window will move to the point where the left will think it’s just a basic truth. And then half the country – the Democrat half – will … Continue reading →
The National Association of Scholars is, in its own words: …a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that seeks to reform higher education. We uphold the standards of a liberal arts education that fosters intellectual freedom, searches for the truth, and promotes virtuous … Continue reading →
I suppose at this point nothing that emanates from the race-baiting Trump-hating crew (some of whom are lawyers and law professors) should shock me. But Terry Smith’s efforts seem particularly pernicious. The following descriptive passage was written by Noah Berlatsky … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: AesopFan] This 2003 article by Roger Scruton is extremely well worth reading. One depressing thing about it, though – in addition to the fact that its author has recently died – is that the complete leftist domination it … Continue reading →
Some people have advanced a theory to explain Iran’s failure to do damage to US personnel in Iraq in this latest attack: the Iranians missed on purpose. Well, maybe. But others strongly disagree: The top US general made clear Wednesday … Continue reading →
Case in point: University of New Hampshire physics professor Chanda Prescod-Weinstein took to Twitter on New Year’s Eve to explain why anti-Semitism is exclusively a “white” problem, and why it is inappropriate to discuss anti-Semitic acts committed by black people. … Continue reading →