Professor Matthew Finkin has published “The Unraveling of the AAUP,” a pointed critique of the American Association of University Professors in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The essay, adapted form a longer paper, explains how the AAUP’s change in its positions on academic boycotts and embrace of DEI statements in academic hiring betray its longstanding […]
While a handful of states have banned the sale or production of lab-grown meat within their borders, the infant industry is still innovating. Cultivated salmon company Wildtype received approval from the Food and Drug Administration in late May, and the company announced it would soon be served at a restaurant in Portland, Oregon, with additional […]
Good morning and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! Remember with everything else in the news this week, there’s always a sports angle. We’ve got a full soccer takeover of the newsletter today (except for a few of the bullet points below). We’ve got the Club World Cup, some MLS labor issues with it, […]
President Donald Trump warned Iranians to “immediately evacuate Tehran” in a Monday afternoon post on Truth Social, raising the prospect of a major escalation in the ongoing war between Israel and Iran—or suggesting that America might join the conflict in a more direct way. Or was that statement just Trumpian bluster that everyone should ignore? […]
Houston Chronicle (R.A. Schuetz) reported yesterday: In a lawsuit over whether a woman should have lost her housing subsidy, the Houston Housing Authority’s lawyer asked a judge not to force the agency to prevent the woman’s eviction while the case was being decided. The brief, submitted by a law firm that frequently represents cities and […]
The perpetrators of antisemitic violence and murder, which I abhor and condemn, should be punished to the maximum extent of the law. The killings of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim as well as the terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado, are nauseating examples of antisemitic brutality. Furthermore, it is intellectually and morally repugnant for anyone to […]
The good guys won a welcome victory at the U.S. Supreme Court last week when the justices ruled 9–0 that an innocent family’s lawsuit against the federal government over a wrong house raid may now proceed. At the same time, however, the ruling was a depressing reminder that all too many people face all too […]
6/17/1963: Sherbert v. Verner is decided. The post Today in Supreme Court History: June Read More Article from Reason.com Reason MagazineThe Reason Magazine website is a go-to destination for libertarians seeking cogent analysis, investigative reporting, and thought-provoking commentary. Championing the principles of individual freedom, limited government, and free markets, the site offers a diverse range […]
Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, by Clay Risen, Scribner, 480 pages, $31 Clay Risen, a New York Times reporter who has written several volumes of popular history, has now tackled the familiar story of the Second Red Scare—the period after World War II, when the nation’s institutions mobilized against the Communists believed […]
Brendan Carr used to talk a big game on free speech. In 2021, when members of Congress urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to block the sale of a Miami radio station over its perceived political slant, Carr—one of the agency’s commissioners—called that move “a deeply troubling transgression of free speech and the FCC’s status as […]