Cornel West, a celebrity African-American academic, asked Harvard, where he had once been tenured before decamping to Princeton, to offer him a tenured position. Harvard declined, and instead offered the 67-year-old West a ten-year contract. This may be an example of (rational but illegal) age discrimination, as Harvard may not want to tenure someone whose […]
From the New York Times obituary for Walter Bernstein (no relation), a blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter, has this to say about his ties to the Communist Party, USA: “I didn’t join the party until after the war,” Mr. Bernstein said, although the events of the ’30s, including the Depression, the Spanish Civil War and the rise […]
(1) Criminal justice/police reform managed to make it high on the public agenda because the huge nationwide reduction in violent crime over the last thirty years, which made people more receptive to arguments about excessive police force, exc Read More Article from Latest – Reason.com David Bernstein
Joe Biden is committed to providing a path to citizenship for the eleven million or so people living in the United States illegally. So it’s rather ironic that he has placed a bust of the late labor leader Cesar Chavez in a prominent place in the Oval Office. Chavez and his union, the United Farm […]
Pacific Legal Foundation’s Center for the Separation of Powers and George Mason University’s Liberty & Law Center at the Antonin Scalia Law School seek papers for a State Judicial Deference Research Roundtable, to be held in late August or early September 2021, in Arlington, VA, or virtually. [For full details, click this link] Possible topics […]
I can’t say I’ve ever fully trusted the Times to be accurate, but until recently I generally felt fairly confident that even if a story was slanted in perspective, the facts that were reported were basically accurate. Not anymore. For example, here is the Times yesterday, in a news story on the front page (and […]
1. Political identity is increasingly important to Americans. 2. Concomitantly, Americans increasingly disdain people “on the other side.” For example, only 50% of Republicans and 41% of Democrats were sure it would not upset them if their child married someone of the other political party. One can reasonably assume that this statistic would be worse […]
I’ve been mystified for the last five-plus years as to what his fans find attractive about Trump. I’m not talking about people who think of him as the lesser evil to a Democratic administration, but people who wholeheartedly support him. I almost never like any politician, so I’m not the best person to address this […]
Last week, Joe Biden stated that if the rioters at the Capitol last week had been associated with Black Lives Matters, they would have been treated much more harshly. I heard a segment on NPR this morning with the same theme. The implication is that right-wing and white rioters get treated with kid gloves, while […]
