Give Me an Engaged Electorate
…the delegates elected by their neighbors needed to decide if they should take a drastic course of action. This is a critical point. When Henry announced his commitment to “liberty…
…the delegates elected by their neighbors needed to decide if they should take a drastic course of action. This is a critical point. When Henry announced his commitment to “liberty…
…government-imposed affirmative action standards, giving preferences in college admissions, contracting, or hiring based on racial attributes. Californians twice have resoundingly voted against efforts of Sacramento politicians to use race as…
…the federal purse strings will likely have the most influence. Please call your congressman and demand action while there is still time to save the jewel in STEM’s crown. Photo…
…It is therefore a fantasy to expect that this ancient land would be willingly parcelled out, especially to enemies of that nation. Furthermore, actions by Western nations to compel expropriation…
…misreads a populist protest as an insurrection and imposes measures that harm a whole country? This is what happened in the Spring of 1774. Dissatisfaction with British rule among the…
…Western notions of freedom generally refer to liberty of action to the extent that it doesn’t meaningfully interfere with someone else’s liberties. This is an old concept in philosophy, and…
…now a trustee at a state university, about his board’s reaction to certain major developments at the school, and he replied, “We need to discuss many things but we won’t,…
…same could be said of young adults now who often espouse contrary principles in their politics and culture. A few might commit to political action, but the great majority of…
…distinct possibility. Not only is Claudine Gay the poster child for plagiarism she is also the poster child for affirmative action. Were she a straight white male with the same…
…of prevention of contraction or transmission of COVID-19 in its description of “Benefits of Getting a COVID-19 Vaccine.” Put simply, if I compel you to take a vaccine that neither…
…state and Congressional action is needed in this space. As a nation, we are failing when the best choice for a family is a CCP school. There are so many…
…universities will remain an intellectual cesspool. This course of action will not be without challenges. Who can be relied upon to administer this type of affirmative action? Certainly not the…
…sex discrimination. Selective universities are no longer allowed to discriminate based on race for admissions following the Supreme Court ruling last year against Harvard and UNC that outlawed affirmative action….
…concrete political action should not necessarily deal with idealized goals when doing so inhibits us from winning short-term cultural battles. Political action might orient itself toward these goals, but it…
…these attacks, and rightly so, but if we despise the fruit of the tree, we should examine its roots, and if we are moved to action by this example, we…
…about race and affirmative action, policing, education, urban renewal, and religion. They engaged with me as an ignorant but eager freshman who grew because of their openness. My experiences at…
…Some states have taken strong action to curb DEI. Texas and Florida stand out, but in fact more than twenty states have taken some kind of anti-DEI action. The proponents…
…in claiming the moral high-ground. Their nihilist and apocalyptic ideology enables them to justify such actions. The international media levy accusations of disproportionate military actions, not against the perpetrators of…
…action to “believe women.” And, spending tax-payer dollars on DEI becomes a nefarious endeavor when the recipient demonstrates a history of dismissing the most grotesque actions of its faculty. Photo…
…for good government. The first quote from Dostoevsky simply means that if there is no God or creator, then man’s actions can be justified. Rape, murder, theft, genocide, and slavery…
…uncomfortable. I never would have considered such a cowardly course of action. Many times, as an undergrad and later as a grad student, I would ask for clarification, elaboration, or…
…not in actuality, prevent equal access to education—could be punished by the university and leave a black mark on a student’s permanent record. The second and more explicit action we…
…color or nationality. It is universal in [its] application” (Yick Wo v. Hopkins)? Or did they all find fault with the Court’s reminder that “Acceptance of race-based state action is…
…the most likely place where the disciplinary action or threat of it happened was in private spaces, as 26 percent of those students reported their “offending” speech deserving of discipline…
…way to pre-empt the plagiarism allegations that had been swirling around Gay before they went public. The board threatened ruinous legal action against journalists who were reporting on Gay’s malfeasance….
…number of its members. The proposed multi-cultural training program at Duke must be judged by these standards. In essence, such a major exercise in group action in a non-emergency situation…
…about Gay’s credentials that they have invited a pall of suspicion over every action they now take. Gay’s letter of resignation is a curiosity that deserves close reading. The first,…
…bother. The proposal openly states that the courses will include topics such as: Race, racialization, and antiracism; Antiblackness; Indigenous methodologies; Activist- and action-oriented theorizing and research methods; Critical and postmodern…
…is true. But private universities are not obliged to respect the First Amendment, which defines restrictions to government action, not to private organizations, which are free to establish their own…
…“in political and social action.” I think a vast majority of the campus brouhahas of today could have been avoided or at least mitigated by adopting and following the principles…