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23 Feb 2024, 10:26 am
[My new article in the print issue of Reason on how things could get weird] It has been awhile since I've had a piece in a print issue of Reason, and I'm particularly delighted that this time I get cool cover art. [read post]
6 Sep 2022, 1:36 pm
[The first government official has been removed by judicial order for participating in the January 6th "insurrection"] One of the lingering issues arising from the events of January 6, 2021 has been whether it would resuscitate the little used Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment. [read post]
13 Dec 2023, 11:29 am
I have a new piece at The Dispatch on the antisemitism hearing in the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and the poor performance of the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and MIT. [read post]
3 Aug 2023, 5:10 am
[State tries to bar Stanford researchers from testifying against it] An interesting new expert witness controversy has broken out; this time in California. [read post]
22 Jun 2024, 10:33 am
[My response to Harvard's Dean Lawrence Bobo] On June 15, Harvard's Dean of Social Sciences published an op-ed in the Harvard Crimson arguing that professors could properly be punished for saying things in public that might "incite" outside actors—like alumni and donors—to "intervene in Harvard's affairs. [read post]
19 May 2022, 9:11 am
[My new article on academic freedom now online at the Houston Law Review] This fall I participated in the annual Frankel Lecture symposium at the University of Houston Law School. [read post]
7 Dec 2023, 12:01 pm
[Only one option will preserve the central mission of the university] Yesterday's House hearings demonstrated the bind that university presidents are in as American college campuses are buffeted by protests relating to the events in Israel and Gaza. [read post]
29 Dec 2022, 12:20 pm
[It is not a workplace "disruption" that co-workers objected to a MAGA hat] Eugene beat me to the punch in posting about the new 9th Circuit case on a teacher wearing a MAGA hat to his school's cultural sensitivity training session, so I will be brief. [read post]
19 Jan 2022, 1:02 pm
[Draft article on academic freedom now available] In November 2021, I was a commentator in response to the 26th Annual Frankel Lecture at the University of Houston Law Center. [read post]
27 Mar 2023, 7:40 am
[Observing Israel (and the United States) through the lens of political science] Empirical social science does not take independent judiciaries as a given. [read post]
5 Jan 2022, 9:55 am
[This should be a high priority for the current Congress] I want to call attention to an excellent op-ed in the Washington Post outlining a framework for reform of the Electoral Count Act. [read post]
10 May 2024, 4:54 am
[No] This is specific to Princeton in its context, but I thought my new op-ed would be of broader interest given the encampments across the country and the many activists on and off campus who are insisting that universities must come to the table to meet their "demands" and must not punish or arrest students who violate university rules and criminal laws. [read post]
29 Aug 2023, 5:50 am
[An Israeli minister demands that Princeton University prohibit a professor from assigning a controversial book] It is not every day that a government minister writes to an American university president demanding that a book be immediately removed "from the curriculum of any of its courses" and "conduct a thorough review of the academic materials" used in its classes. [read post]
7 Feb 2024, 7:40 am
[An open letter released today from the AFA, HxA, and FIRE] Today the Academic Freedom Alliance, Heterodox Academy, and the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression released a joint open letter calling for universities to adopt a policy of institutional neutrality. [read post]
5 Jan 2023, 7:00 am
[In email to campus Hamline University president reemphasizes that academic freedom does not exist there] Hamline University is going through some things. [read post]
8 Dec 2021, 8:20 am
[Universities are better off if the faculty do not all think alike] As part of an issue dedicated to freedom of thought in the journal Social Philosophy and Policy, I published on article focusing on ideological diversity on the faculty at American universities. [read post]
25 Jan 2022, 11:02 am
A long article in Indianapolis Monthly looks at recent turmoil at Liberty Fund. [read post]
15 Sep 2023, 1:49 pm
[A member of Congress weighs in, and the university president speaks out] Before the start of the Fall semester, I noted that an assistant professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University was mired in a controversy over a book that she had assigned for an upcoming class. [read post]
16 Nov 2021, 6:27 am
[The university relents but policy reform is needed to better protect academic freedom] As previously discussed, the University of Florida created a huge controversy by attempting to bar its professors from testifying as expert witnesses in a lawsuit against the state of Florida. [read post]
29 Oct 2022, 8:46 am
[New article in symposium on the law and politics of impeachment now available] Missouri Law Review just released its new issue featuring a symposium on the law and politics of the impeachments of President Donald Trump. [read post]
