While thinking about my PJ post on Obama’s comparison of mass murders and gun control in the US to the same phenomena in Europe, it occurred to me that part of what Obama has done during his presidency is to … Continue reading →
I thought I’d highlight this observation by commenter “Caedmon” in the “Free speech on campus” thread: I wonder how much influence high tuition fees have on this?… When the high costs of tuition fees in the US are discussed the … Continue reading →
Ace notes that even some liberal professors on campus are becoming alarmed (although for the wrong reasons) about the closed, doctrinaire, power-driven, anti-free-speech tactics of the social justice [sic] warriors on campus. He quotes a liberal professor named Edward Schlosser … Continue reading →
Ross Ulbricht received a very heavy sentence for his creation of the black market internet site Silk Road: Ross W. Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, a notorious online marketplace for the sale of heroin, cocaine, LSD and other illegal … Continue reading →
There’s been quite a bit of brouhaha about this course: Visual arts students at the University of California, San Diego, must exhibit themselves in the buff before a naked class of 20 and a nude professor or fail an upper-level … Continue reading →
…who missed the link to this article posted by commenter “snopercod” yesterday, please read it.
Continue reading →I don’t have a definitive answer to the question posed by the title of this post. But I know that it’s an important question. ISIS is a modern phenomenon. Violence and terrorism is an old, old one, but the internet … Continue reading →
The story “The Man Without a Country” used to be standard reading matter for seventh graders. In fact, it was the first “real” book—as opposed to those tedious Dick and Jane readers—that I was assigned in school. It was exciting … Continue reading →
All of the following quotes from John Adams can be found here: “Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present Generation to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make good use of it. If you do … Continue reading →
I have continued to read Victor Klemperer’s two-volume diary I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years (I’ve written about the book before, here and here). Klemperer was in an unusual position in Germany. Although born a Jew, … Continue reading →
Perhaps you’ve noticed that the topic of free speech has been coming up again and again and again lately. The battle to protect it has taken on new urgency, in part because too many people appear to have forgotten what … Continue reading →
Mark Steyn has some obligatory reading on the “Yes, but…” reaction to the attack on Pam Geller, and he doesn’t mess around: The Washington Post offered the celebrated headline “Event Organizer Offers No Apology After Thwarted Attack In Texas”, while … Continue reading →