Here’s a transcript and video of Obama’s Paris news conference, which was widely perceived as disturbingly unfocused and halting. He said one thing in particular that received a lot of puzzled criticism: “With respect to Planned Parenthood, obviously, my heart … Continue reading →
A lot like the good old days: There is a sense of fear in the streets, the Belgians understand that they too are targets of terror. Jews now pray in their homes [as opposed to at synagogues] and some of … Continue reading →
Oh, it’s so hard to keep the dictates of diversity straight! A person can be trying to do the right thing, and yet fail. For example, yoga: Student leaders have pulled the mat out from 60 University of Ottawa students, … Continue reading →
Quite a find: The interior ministry said 168 searches had taken place across the country in the wake of the Paris terror attacks… Searches in Lille, Strasbourg, Lyon, Grenoble, Marseille and Toulouse resulted in the rocket launcher, flak jackets, 15 … Continue reading →
In my earlier post today, I used an addendum to discuss this editorial by the student editors at Claremont McKenna College. But I decided it needed a post of its own, in order to spotlight it. Reading it may give … Continue reading →
But this time it was assistant professor Melissa Click: An assistant communications professor at the Missouri School of Journalism resigned from her courtesy appointment Tuesday after she was caught on video confronting a student journalist and attempting to block him … Continue reading →
When I wrote my first post on the University of Missouri racism flap, I included these observations: And if the origins of that [excrement] swastika are anything like many such incidents in the recent past at other universities, the perpetrator … Continue reading →
I’ve been too busy to follow what’s been happening at Yale. But since we’ve have talking about what’s going on at college campuses, I’ll take a moment to pay some attention. Conor Friedersdorf has a piece on the subject at … Continue reading →
The University of Missouri story is not over. It has legs, and it has tentacles. I wrote two posts about it yesterday, and one at Legal Insurrection today that’s even longer, and I’m still not done. Nor are they. If … Continue reading →
Watch it: Articles about what happened are here and here. Heather Mac Donald writes the following in City Journal (before this particular incident occurred, by the way; she is speaking of another video, one of an incident that occurred at … Continue reading →
In response to my post on the resignation of President Wolfe of the University of Missouri, commenter “cornhead” asks: “How is the [university] president responsible for all these actions of third parties?” Cornhead’s question was almost certainly rhetorical. But I’m … Continue reading →
…that was noted by Allan Bloom decades ago in The Closing of the American Mind. I’ve written about Bloom’s book and thesis many times, particularly here and here. If you read those posts, you’ll immediately see their relevance to what’s … Continue reading →