Liberty
Delivering a warning about Democrats’ lawfare
Peter Navarro writes for the Federalist about his experience with Democrats’ legal machinery. I Went to Prison So You Won’t Have To is both a line from my speech that…
Kafkaesque
characteristic or reminiscent of the oppressive or nightmarish qualities of Franz Kafka's fictional world
Liberty
Harvard learns cost of accepting federal money
Editors at National Review Online explore recent developments at one of the nation’s elite universities. The day when the nation’s great universities went with palms outstretched to Washington has long…
Health Care
What’s ailing American health care
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online challenges popular notions about problems plaguing American health care. I have for years argued that most people would be reflexive free-market capitalists if not…
Education
Martin Center column explores denunciation in political science
Sumantra Maitra writes for the Martin Center about “the power of denunciation” in the field of political science. A recent case of attempted silencing and censorship has roiled the field…
Education
Ending Title IX’s ‘kangaroo courts’
Tiana Lowe uses a National Review Online column to send a message to U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. DeVos has taken it upon herself to deconstruct perhaps the most contentious…
Liberty
Historian Johnson decries the success of political correctness
Paul Johnson examines the dangers of political correctness in his latest Forbes column. THE MENTAL INFECTION known as “political correctness” is one of the most dangerous intellectual afflictions ever to…
Liberty
Another honest American nailed by overreaching government officials
Every day we hear of new examples of government overreach to show how Kafkaesque the US is becoming. Consider the case Radley Balko discusses in this Washington Post piece, a…
Liberty
‘World’s leading liberal voice’ blasts Obama administration’s approach to secrecy on drones
Whatever you think of the Obama administration’s drone program, you have to question the secrecy surrounding it. At least that’s the stance Glenn Greenwald takes in a column for The…
Education
Former NYC education chief details the impediments to school reform
If you want to know why school reform initiatives tend to go nowhere, you could watch this week’s Shaftesbury Society presentation from John Redmond, you could hang out with Terry…
Liberty
The Butler Conspiracy
With today’s reporting from Franco Ordoñez and Fred Clasen-Kelly, CMS and the Matthews Police Department enter a danger zone. In fact, the suspension of Butler High School Principal Theresa Hopkins…
Liberty
Roll Call Describes “Kafkaesque” Interactions w/ Homeland Security
Lest you think government stonewalling of reporters only happens in North Carolina, check out this story from Roll Call about a Freedom of Information Act request the paper made to…
Liberty
Is this case “Orwellian” or “Kafkaesque”?
J.D. Tuccille writes about a shocking case of federal agents harassing a peaceful individual here. The vast proliferation of vague laws covering almost everything makes it possible for government officials…