Would A Proposed Executive Order Attack Academic Freedom At Catholic Colleges?
If you wonder why I ask the question in the title to this post, take a look at No Need for Congress to Act — I’m President, So I’ll Do It Myself, posted on Minding The Campus this morning.
Coasean Bargains
David Bernstein proposes an eminently sensible Coasean bargain to resolve the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Noting that the Netanyahu government has indicated a willingness to cede 90% of the West Bank to the Palestinians and that the Palestinians are demanding 98.4% plus land swaps, Bernstein suggests: How about if Israel simply “buys” (without necessarily conceding lack of current [...]
Voting Rights And Wrongs
One of the surest signs of a weak, unappealing argument is the propensity of its advocates to misstate it, substituting high-sounding shibboleths for substance. A good example is Josh Gerstein’s “Voting Rights under siege” on Politico yesterday. “The view that states should have free rein to change their election laws even in places with a [...]
Krauthammer Asks…
In a typically excellent column on the HHS contraception mandate, Overreach: Obamacare vs. the Constitution, Charles Krauthammer asks: Has anyone considered the import of this new mandate? The president of the United States has just ordered private companies to give away for free a service that his own health and human services secretary has repeatedly called a major [...]
Waiting For Fisher
[NOTE: This post has been UPDATED] By the time you read this the Supreme Court may have decided, in its February 17 conference, whether or not to hear the appeal of Fisher v. University of Texas, a challenge to race-based preferential treatment. Meanwhile, or even after the Court’s decision, it would be worth your while [...]
UPDATE
An ADDENDUM has been added to Discriminatory Medical School Admissions.
Monumental Error
A few days ago the Washington Post published an article about the Park Service’s decision to erase some words carved in stone on the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and replace them with something more apt and accurate. The offending inscription, the article reports, comes from a powerful, difficult-to-distill sermon King delivered two months before [...]
Discriminatory Medical School Admissions
Mark Perry, an economist at the University of Michigan, Flint, and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, presents compelling evidence of heavy thumbs on the racial scale in medical school admissions (HatTip: Linda Seebach). Read his entire post, but this is his summary of the aggregated data from the American Association of Medical Colleges for the [...]
Mandates Today, Mandates Tomorrow, Mandates…
By now the administration’s “accomodation” to the furor generated by its earlier refusal to exempt religious schools, hospitals, and charities from its new Obamacare-based requirement that all employers, including employers with religious objections, must provide a panoply of birth control products and services in their insurance plans for employees is well known. The proposed “accomodation” [...]
Holy Toledo! Who Needs Free Speech?
Should a public university be allowed to (and even if it is, should it) fire its human resources director who published religion-based, politically incorrect, un-diverse statements in a local newspaper? If you’re interested in that question, see my discussion in today’s Minding The Campus.
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