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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]
14 Oct 2022, 4:33 am
“He must be accountable,” Thompson added. [read post]
26 Aug 2022, 7:35 am
The University of California at Davis mathematician Abigail Thompson was an early critic of how those statements were being used in the California system, and sparked an intense controversy by comparing them to the now-reviled loyalty oaths of the McCarthy era. [read post]
21 Jan 2022, 3:00 am
Abigail Spanberger first put forth legislation that would ban members of Congress from trading stock, a flurry of action in the Senate has injected some momentum into the proposal. [read post]
17 Sep 2020, 2:40 pm
Below the fold are the results of the 2020-2021 Law Professor Twitter Census. [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, 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]
20 Dec 2019, 11:26 am
Here. [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]
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]
13 Sep 2019, 7:25 am
Below the fold are the results of the 2019-2020 Law Professor Twitter Census. [read post]
15 Aug 2018, 2:59 pm
Below the fold are the results of the 2018-2019 Law Professor Twitter Census. [read post]
20 Jul 2018, 6:51 am
Abigail felt her husband’s opponents were evil and vile with their rhetoric. [read post]
6 Jul 2016, 2:03 am
’” And at Vox, Richard Thompson Ford contends that the ruling “marks a turning point in the long controversy surrounding race-conscious admissions policies and perhaps an important shift in the orientation of the Supreme Court as well. [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]
10 Jun 2016, 7:06 am
If you are the victim of a Bangor car accident, contact Peter Thompson & Associates at 1-800-490-5218 for a confidential consultation to discuss your rights. [read post]
13 Apr 2016, 11:14 am
If you are the victim of a Bangor car accident, contact Peter Thompson & Associates at 1-800-490-5218 for a confidential consultation to discuss your rights. [read post]
11 Feb 2016, 6:34 am
Thompson who is Principal Attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation. [read post]
