The Golden Age of Campus Free Speech
In 1966 a Columbia University student group called Humanitas decided to test the limits of the university’s tolerance with a series of controversial events.
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The Laughing Snowflakes
Tthe organizers obviously know that many comedians have recently been cracking jokes to which their listeners take violent exception, particularly at colleges
Choices and the Wage Gap
If a woman’s husband makes more money than she does, as is often the case, his career needs will usually be given the most weight,
Roar, Beto, Roar
When it comes to Beto’s political future, most liberal pundits fall into the group that says: Hey, he only lost by three points. Beto in 2020!
Presidents and State Universities
There’s something to be said for the leveling effect of negotiating a vast & faceless bureaucracy & sitting in cavernous classrooms with hundreds of students.
Only in America
The spirit of projecting racial obsessions onto illustrations lives on in the letters column of this Sunday’s New York Times Book Review,
The ‘Space Race’ Was Fixed
The USSR was not the first to develop and test the necessary technology for a launchable satellite. America was.
It’s Not the System, It’s the Democrats
For analysis of democracy in America, The Economist is not exactly a threat to Tocqueville.
A Saw about a Hammer
Does anyone outside the media think it should be obligatory for black athletes (since no one asks white golfers to “speak out”) to share their political views?