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26 Nov 2019, 7:32 am
Professor Thompson, whose opposition to mandatory "diversity statements" we noted last week, is now the target of a petition, which inspired this commentary... [read post]
22 Nov 2019, 6:04 pm
From InsideHigherEd.com: Abigail Thompson, chair of math at the University of California, Davis, ... says that today’s diversity statements are like the political litmus tests of the McCarthy era.... [[ This is a content summary only. [read post]
20 Nov 2019, 10:38 am
UC Davis mathematician Abigail Thompson--at the center of yesterday's story--also wrote a devastating takedown of Lu Hong & Scott Page's purported mathematical proof that diversity is more important than ability, a bit of blather that often gets trotted out in... [read post]
20 Dec 2019, 4:40 pm
UC Davis math professor Abigail Thompson on the University of California's loyalty oath (a.k.a., diversity, equality, and inclusion statement) from today's WSJ: Seventy years ago the University of... [[ This is a content summary only. [read post]
30 Apr 2020, 9:52 am
Chronicle of Higher Education: The Legal Problem With Diversity Statements, by Brian Leiter (Chicago): When Abigail Thompson, a mathematician at the University of California at Davis, wrote an opinion piece last fall in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society lamenting the use of mandatory diversity statements in job applications,... [read post]
20 Dec 2019, 11:26 am
Here. [read post]
12 Dec 2011, 5:45 am
That’s because even in a world of screens, paper offers unique ways to organize and share your thoughts, as Abigail Sellen and Richard Harper noted in The Myth of the Paperless Office. [read post]
11 Feb 2016, 6:34 am
Thompson who is Principal Attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation. [read post]
19 Jan 2016, 12:06 am
Macdonald, Lord Vivian's tears: the moral hazards of humanitarian intervention Abigail Green, From protection to humanitarian intervention? [read post]
28 Feb 2024, 5:24 am
"Writes Alice Thompson, in "Gen Z need life lessons more than therapy/A sense of purpose and decent careers advice would help youngsters stressed out by global uncertainty and war" (London Times).She's reading "Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren’t Growing Up," a new book by Abigail Shrier (commission earned).Yesterday, I blogged an excerpt from that book, and I also listened to the Bari Weiss podcast interview with Shrier and am in the middle of Joe… [read post]
24 Jun 2016, 9:05 am
University of Texas at Austin, holding that the race-conscious admissions policy in use when Abigail Fisher applied (unsuccessfully) to the university does not violate the Constitution, for this blog. [read post]
13 Sep 2012, 10:58 am
09.13.12 Guy-Uriel Charles Online VRA symposium: The Voting Rights Act, judicial review, and congressional deference 09.13.12 Adam Cox and Thomas Miles Online VRA symposium: Social science goes to court 09.13.12 Hans von Spakovsky Online VRA symposium: The constitutionality of Section 5 comes to the Supremes again 09.12.12 Abigail Thernstrom Online VRA symposium: The Section 5 guidelines and their substantial federalism costs 09.12.12 Richard Pildes Online VRA symposium: The Supreme… [read post]
6 Sep 2012, 3:10 pm
People like Abigail Fisher and Barbara Grutter aren’t political pariahs—they enjoy a great deal of public sympathy and can inspire political reform. [read post]
7 Sep 2012, 9:30 pm
We are grateful to the following contributors who will weigh in next week on the cases currently in the pipeline and how the Court should or will rule on the challenges to the VRA: Guy-Uriel Charles – Duke Law Adam Cox – NYU School of Law and Thomas Miles – University of Chicago Law School Luis Fuentes-Rohwer – Indiana Maurer School of Law Richard Hasen – UC Irvine School of Law and Election Law Blog Heather Gerken – Yale Law School Nathaniel Persily… [read post]
28 Aug 2012, 8:55 am
The petitioner in the case, Abigail Fisher, is a white student; in 2008, she was denied admission to the university’s flagship Austin campus. [read post]
15 Jul 2011, 11:35 am
Trim, 'If a prince use tyrannie towards his people': interventions on behalf of foreign populations in early-modern EuropeAndrew Thompson, The Protestant interest and the history of humanitarian intervention, c.1685–c.1756 Brendan Simms, 'The age of chivalry is not dead': the idea of humanitarian intervention in the era of Burke John Bew, 'From an umpire to a competitor': Castlereagh, Canning and the issue of international intervention in the wake of the… [read post]
14 May 2015, 6:12 am
” In the National Review Online, Roger Clegg and Joshua Thompson urge the Court to grant Abigail Fisher’s petition for review of the Fifth Circuit’s latest decision upholding (on remand from the Supreme Court) the University of Texas at Austin’s use of affirmative action in its undergraduate admissions process. [read post]
15 Jul 2010, 7:32 am
See also Bill Otis's posts here and here.The article quotes Abigail Thernstrom calling the case "small potatoes. [read post]
20 Dec 2019, 2:59 am
” [Abigail Thompson, Notices of the American Mathematical Society via Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed and thence via Bainbridge; more, Jerry Coyne and Joel Fish thread with background on new UC centralized hiring procedures; earlier and more on mandatory diversity statements] Not at all scary or authoritarian for rightists discontented with the political tenor of academia to call for seizing university endowments [for instance, more, a sampling of chatter on Twitter] … [read post]
12 Sep 2012, 8:26 am
Thompson, staff attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation in Sacramento. [read post]
