The New 2024 Law School Rankings: The Sociology of Law
…has a deep tradition in teaching law, and its academy are noteworthy for their more astute understanding of legal history, jurisprudence, and the linkages between law and philosophy. The U.K….
…has a deep tradition in teaching law, and its academy are noteworthy for their more astute understanding of legal history, jurisprudence, and the linkages between law and philosophy. The U.K….
…advertised a talk I was to give on campus discussing my book. The student wrote: “Carole Hooven, one of the speakers, has had some history of speaking against the interests…
…NFL’s Baltimore Colts in one of the largest upsets in NFL history, fulfilling Namath’s famous pre-game “guarantee” for a victory. Beginning in 1970, the merger between the AFL and NFL…
…years I’ve also had two beautiful daughters. At night I often find myself reading or telling bedtime stories – sometimes about history, but more often about the antics of talking…
…if—the author looked for previous work. Authors making a firstness claim boldly declare themselves to be the first in history to study a particular topic—as in “this is the first…
…he was very nervous, and his voice quite quivered. We can now have a conversation about Anglo-Saxon traditions and values, about that long chain of events in English history whereby…
…the heroes of our past matter. We need a new public calendar to commemorate all the figures of our history, though it should highlight first the individuals in our history…
…and a better understanding of statistics and history, classroom discussion changed. There was no longer a uniform agreement; professors and students had to engage with my ideas. Because of the…
…in shaping how they think. We see a strong connection between the ideological capture of K-12 and higher education and the decline in teaching our nation’s founding principles and history…
…even more—around 20 percent. A decline of this magnitude for this long is unique in American history. Underlying this is a sharp decline in public support for universities. At the…
…at war or under the threat of war for most of history, public sentiment has ordinarily preferred unity to diversity. Prudent and humane governments have usually tolerated a degree of…
…‘people of the Book,’ forcing them to live amongst the very people desiring their extirpation, as history records. There can be no possible accommodation between holders of these two conflicting…
…solve the history of unresolved rape incidents, Turell and Thompson recommend the implementation of an equity plan and forming a DEI task force—whatever that might accomplish. If DEI programming has…
…our god. Society tells us to do what makes us happy: put ourselves first. The consequence? High divorce rates, youth experiencing the highest levels of depression in history, cycles of…
…justice, history, politics, and many other subjects. At no point, however, did going to administrators to complain about information my professors taught cross my mind—even when new ideas made me…
…rules were an important milestone in the history of Title IX because they employed the standard adopted by the Supreme Court in Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education. Under…
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by City Journal on December 7, 2023 and is crossposted here with permission. The American Museum of Natural History’s newest “revitalized” hall—the Northwest…
…from within. With a history of issuing statements on matters of public concern and a record of speech codes declaring what views are acceptable, colleges and universities have established expectations…
…for free men. It entailed understanding of epic poetry, history, and lessons from practicing statesmen. It was guided by the need to have virtuous and competent rulers, and by the…
…Duke University, I edited a publication called the Faculty Newsletter. The Newsletter had a short and rather erratic history and folded a couple of years after I quit. When I…
…also hauled before Congress to answer for their overreach. Given this history, is the current overreach worse? The two tracks seem designed to distract and confuse observers; the first follows…
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Spectator World on December 24, 2023 and is crossposted here with permission. Harvard president Claudine Gay’s troubling history of appropriating other…
…anti-historical theory neglects the many empires throughout history and even in the contemporary world, including the vast Arab Islamic Empire, the Chinese Empire, and the Inka, Aztec, and Zulu Empires,…
…to Christmas include the decoration of small trees. Although evidence that Christmas originated from these Roman holidays is scant, these hypotheses have a long history. For instance, Scottish anthropologist Sir…
…of the realm. The academy is, ultimately, a zero-sum game. The history of hype-inflation is well known. Better to kill it off sooner than later. Article 1, Section 10 of…
…struggle for freedom, commerce, and reason in a country that has abandoned those virtues, but which can still access the history, willpower, and intelligence needed to recover them. The world…
…a bunch of venal thugs and terrorists. Mostly, yes—but Bobby Sands died in a hunger strike in the Maze, and a British Tory would be ill-advised to write a history…
…the roots of fascism and anti-Semitism in American higher education run very deep, reaching back to the 1930s and earlier. I am a professor of music theory and history at…
…and well-documented history in North America of prejudice and discrimination against Jews, notwithstanding the fact that the U.S. and Canada offered Jews protection and opportunity far greater than they enjoyed…
…(especially anything based on fossil fuel, which is virtually everything), Western forms of government, Western religion, history itself, and at its far edges, even rational thought. But sometimes it is…