The Problem with Mandated Diversity Statements in Faculty Hiring and Promotion
This is the fourth in a series of five guest posts we are publishing this week as the co-authors of a new book from Oxford University Press titled “Unassailable Ideas: …
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Thursday Open Thread
Please feel free to write comments on this post on whatever topic you like! (As usual, please avoid personal insults of each other, vulgarities aimed at each other or at …
Belarus Rises Up
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has run the formerly Soviet country since 1994, but his latest victory, following a Potemkin election on August 9, may be the beginning of the end …
Brickbat: Garbage In, Garbage Out
Three more officers of the Los Angeles Police Department have been charged with falsifying information they placed into a state gang database. “In all three cases, the defendants are accused …
$75 Billion in Band-Aids Won’t Cure Ailing Airlines
Regal Cinemas announced recently that it will temporarily close all 536 of its U.S. locations as the COVID-19 pandemic rages on and continues to keep customers away. This move will …
Kamala Harris Promises To Decriminalize Marijuana and Expunge Records
Tonight’s vice presidential debate yielded little clarity, with Sen. Kamala Harris (D–Calif.) and Vice President Mike Pence skirting question after question. One exception: Harris’s promise that a Biden-Harris administration would …
Kamala Harris Refused To Answer a Direct Question About Whether a Biden Administration Would Pack the Supreme Court
Sen. Kamala Harris (D–Calif.) was asked directly whether she and Vice President Joe Biden would try to expand or pack the Supreme Court if they were elected—and she did not …
Public School Superintendent Who Warned Pod-Based Learning ‘Causes Inequities’ Is Sending His Own Kid to Private School
Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS) Superintendent Gregory Hutchings has always been proud to call himself a parent of two children who attend public school. Until recently, his website and Twitter …
Cuomo Clamps Down on New York Churches and Schools (Again)
There comes a moment as you’re listening to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo rant when you realize it all seems so familiar. Oh, yeah, you think—this guy sounds like the …
Nearly 2 Years After Houston Drug Warriors Killed Rhogena Nicholas, Her Family May Get a Chance To Find Out What Happened
Nearly two years after Houston narcotics officers invaded the home of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas based on a fraudulent search warrant and shot them both dead, we still don’t …