Sometimes there’s so much out there it’s hard to keep up. For instance, although I’d heard of the Pay As You Earn program, the details had previously passed under my radar screen. But my oh my, the set-up’s clever: But … Continue reading →
SCOTUS has ruled 6-2 (Kagan abstaining) that Michigan’s law against race-based affirmative action is constitutional. In other words, it’s not racial discrimination to ban the sort of racial discrimination that is supposedly designed for the purpose of redressing racial discrimination. … Continue reading →
The behavior of Brandeis’ administration in withdrawing its honorary degree invitation from Hirsi Ali has drawn a great many accusations of cowardice. The word “craven” (which I used yesterday) comes to mind, and not just to my mind. Witness Bill … Continue reading →
[UPDATE: Hirsi Ali comes back with a ringing statement, worth reading in full. An excerpt: I wish to dissociate myself from the university’s statement, which implies that I was in any way consulted about this decision. On the contrary, I … Continue reading →
How? Apologize: Oppression, as outlined in SSMU’s Equity Policy, means the exercise of power by a group of people over another group of people with specific consideration of cultural, historical and living legacies. The image in question was an extension … Continue reading →
Not so fast, kids, not so fast: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology sent an e-mail to prospective students, erroneously telling them in a line at the bottom that they had been admitted… The mix-up happened when MIT combined two separate … Continue reading →
The first act in the Duke lacrosse case were the allegations and the resultant hue and cry and calls for conviction. The second act was the unraveling of the case and the disbarment of prosecutor and DA Mike Nifong, as … Continue reading →
David Cutler wrote this memo on health reform implementation in May of 2010, about six weeks after Obamacare was passed. I suggest you read the whole thing, and remember as you read it that Cutler was a supporter of the … Continue reading →
…quoted in this article by Ace should read Thomas Sowell’s Intellectuals and Society. But they won’t; they’re too smart for that. “Intellect is not wisdom,” wrote Sowell, and truer words were never spoken. The particular weakness of intellectual elites is … Continue reading →
A trip back in time to the epicenter: Cornell, 1969. As Allan Bloom wrote: …[S]tudents discovered that pompous teachers who catechized them about academic freedom could, with a little shove, be made into dancing bears. It was a turning point, … Continue reading →
Our highly-credentialed UN Ambassador Samantha Power either believed, or pretended to believe, that Iran and/or Russia would be cowed by the international community’s revelations about and reaction to Syria, and would be convinced to turn on Assad as a result: … Continue reading →
I’ve just spent a fruitless hour trying to find the source from which I’d copied the following Allan Bloom quote some time ago. Somehow I’d lost the link, and now I can’t find it again. But I thought I’d present … Continue reading →