Liberty
Campus Illiberalism on the Rise
Tevi Troy explores for Discourse the path that leads to campus illiberalism. Free speech is under assault on America’s campuses, as cancel culture and the woke mob strive to stifle…
Condoleezza Rice
American diplomat and political scientist (born 1954)
Liberty
Putting Communist China’s Crimes in Context
Jay Nordlinger of National Review Online ponders communist China’s impact. The Soviet Union lasted 74 years. Communist China is only two years short of that mark. The PRC got going…
Liberty
Defending free speech
Tevi Troy writes for National Affairs about the best way to ensure protection of free-speech rights. Any survey of contemporary life on America’s campuses reveals that our institutions of higher…
Liberty
Hillary the transformer … or not
Noemie Emery of the Washington Examiner questions one particular characterization of Hillary Clinton’s political career. Last Friday, Hillary Clinton received an award (or a consolation prize, if you will) from…
Research Brief
Law & Public Safety
An Outstanding Federal Judge Announces Her Retirement
Janice Rogers Brown—one of my favorite federal judges—will retire next month from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Damon Root has called her, “The most libertarian federal…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Featured speaker at “JebFest” promotes socialism, abolition of private schools
This week, the education organization founded by Jeb Bush, Foundation for Excellence in Education, held their annual conference in Denver. “JebFest” included big-name speakers, elected officials, and education policy folks…
Liberty
Lowry’s latest column is likely to offend
National Review editor Rich Lowry‘s latest column at NRO examines one of the most disturbing features of political debate during the past year. To put it in Victorian terms, 2014…
Liberty
“an increasing amount of the demands for censorship are coming from students”
Count me among those concerned about the politically correct views and values being drilled into college students these days. Of particular concern is the lack of respect for free speech…
Elections & Public Integrity
Dispatches from the campaign trail, November 3, 2014
• Early voting totals are in! More than 1.1 million North Carolinians have cast ballots either at early voting sites or by mail, a higher number of votes cast than…
Liberty
Goldberg examines liberals’ love for free speech … when it suits them
They might disagree over the relative merits of cats and dogs, but John Hood and Jonah Goldberg share similar views about the support for free speech among those on the…
Education
P.J. O’Rourke’s commencement address at Rutgers … that he would have given … if anyone had asked
No one asked him, but that didn’t stop P.J. O’Rourke from composing a commencement address for Rutgers University, which attracted attention because of students’ successful efforts to ditch the originally…
Education
TIME tackles the recent higher ed silliness
It’s not just right-of-center commentators taking note of recent silliness involving college commencement ceremonies. The latest issue of TIME tackles the topic as well. Zealous students at such institutions as…