The White House has announced that economics adviser Larry Summers is leaving. I’ve been anticipating this move for quite some time (see this), and I’m certainly not the only one (see this). The real question is: why is Summers leaving? … Continue reading →
Jack Cashill, who has previously stirred up controversy by alleging that Bill Ayers wrote Obama’s Dreams From My Father, connects some dots about the prevalence of plagiarism and/or ghost-writing among Harvard Law School professors, and the dubious role of Supreme … Continue reading →
This interview, in which Michael Totten interviews author Paul Berman about his new book, The Flight of the Intellectuals, is well worth reading. Here’s an excerpt from the description of the book at Amazon: Twenty years ago, Ayatollah Khomeini called … Continue reading →
…and then there’s Yale and Harvard. David Bernstein at Volokh wonders whether this Harvard-Yale thingee isn’t a bit much: The president went to Harvard, and barely defeated a primary opponent who went to Yale. His predecessor went to Yale and … Continue reading →
Eugene Volokh, who was born in the Soviet Union and came to the United States as a child, reminicises about thought control in the country of his youth and relates the atmosphere there to what happened at Harvard Law School … Continue reading →
Martha Minow, Dean of Harvard Law School, has put another PC nail in the coffin of free speech at that august institution, alma mater of our president. The topic? A private email sent by third year Harvard Law student Stephanie … Continue reading →
An excellent interview with Thomas Sowell. The point he makes reminds me of the following, one of my favorite quotes from the work of Czech novelist Milan Kundera: For example, communists used to believe that in the course of capitalist … Continue reading →
I’m taking the above phrase from David Horowitz’s article on Sixties Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver and his many subsequent conversions: [Cleaver’s] Panther comrades David Hilliard, Bobby Seale, and Elaine Brown were busily taking advantage of a national false memory syndrome … Continue reading →
Now we hear that Obama is going to get Gates and Crowley together for a White House chat. It’s an opportunity for a nice teaching moment about racial profiling, too, with Gates saying that “…he hoped his arrest by Crowley … Continue reading →
The NY Times has what I would consider some very good news: my tiresome cohorts, the baby boomers, are starting to retire from academia, and so their dominance of that particular venue seems to be coming to an end. I’m … Continue reading →
One of the points Obama supporters often make about McCain is that he must be dumb since he graduated 594th out of 599th in his class at the Naval Academy. McCain’s low ranking is true. It’s also is true that … Continue reading →
Dennis Prager was on the college lecture circuit recently. The occasion? “Islamo-fascism Awareness Week.” The Left’s response was to spearhead a drive to discredit him and the other speakers on the subject with a favorite insult: racist bigots. It’s interesting … Continue reading →