Oberlin’s insurer is highly unlikely to cover Oberlin’s liabilities against Gibson’s Bakery. It makes sense; why should an insurer be liable for the willful and knowing wrongdoing of the insured? Here’s a more technical statement of the situation, written by … Continue reading →
If you read Legal Insurrection regularly, you’ve probably been following their in-depth coverage of the trial in which a long-time family-run business in the town of Oberlin, Ohio, sued the college. The verdict is now in, and the plaintiffs have … Continue reading →
By now you’re probably read about the the dismissal of Ronald Sullivan and his wife from their posts at Harvard College’s Winthrop House: The story begins last January when the African American Law School Professor Ronald Sullivan joined Harvey Weinstein’s … Continue reading →
Someone once asked me about what I actually do as a blogger, and I replied airily, “Oh, I just write a term paper a day.” It was meant to be a joke, but the joke wasn’t so very far from … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Part I can be found here.] Later on in his interview, the philosopher and bioethicist Julian Savulescu has much to say about what humans can do on the biological level to help make the world better, in the general … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Part II here.] As soon as I saw the headline for this article, I thought it might be about Peter Singer. I’ve written at great length about Singer before (see this, this, and this), and the title of the … Continue reading →
I just finished a post about an anti-Semitic cartoon published in the international NY Times. But the left certainly isn’t stopping at anti-Semitism; Jews are just the proverbial canaries in the coal mine. You no doubt have noticed that Christians … Continue reading →
If you go into politics, you should expect to be criticized. And if you say something in a speech or an interview, that statement is fair game. Or at least, it used to be that way. One thing Americans didn’t … Continue reading →
David Solway writes: The idea of merit has fallen on evil times, as has its corollary concept, objectivity… In the interests of creating a society based on the axioms of “social justice”—which is really socialist justice—the principles of professional merit … Continue reading →
Yesterday I read this article about how requirements of diversity and inclusion are now utterly and completely dominant in classics departments at the university level. This is, of course, not a surprise, because the takeover has been increasing at a … Continue reading →
This is awfully interesting: California doctoral student who filed Title IX complaints in 2018 against Yale University and the University of Southern California for alleged discrimination against male students has now filed a similar complaint against Harvard University. Ph.D. student … Continue reading →
1969 was a very big and tumultuous year, and I was paying attention to a lot of things. But I didn’t catch everything, and I don’t remember this story. In the annals of the follies of higher education in this … Continue reading →