“BU Investigating Whether Students Cheated on Online Exams”
So reports the Boston Globe (Deirdre Fernandes): [O]n Saturday night, BU chemistry professor Binyomin Abrams sent an e-mail to one of his classes warning them that he had become aware …
Reason
No, COVID-19 Isn’t Like the Vietnam War. It Isn’t Like Any War.
After weeks of downplaying the threat posed by COVID-19 as it spread across the world and into the United States, President Donald Trump was finally taking it seriously on March …
The National Labor Relations Board Wants To Punish a Conservative Publisher for a Joke About Unions
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ordered Ben Domenech—publisher of the conservative website The Federalist, and a friend of mine—to take down a June 2019 tweet in which he …
What ‘Excess Deaths’ Do and Don’t Tell Us About COVID-19
A New York Times analysis of mortality data from seven states concludes that the “coronavirus death toll” is “far higher than reported.” During the five-week period from March 8 through April …
De Blasio Threatens To Arrest Hasidic Jews for Congregating To Mourn the Death of a Rabbi
New York City remains one of the United States’ biggest hotbeds of COVID-19 infections and deaths. More than 12,000 deaths have been attributed to the virus in the Big Apple, …
Netflix’s Extraction Is a Tolerable Substitute for a Real Summer Action Movie
Recently I have been thinking a lot about the way the pandemic has necessitated all sorts of substitutes for ordinary experiences: You still go to church, but on Skype. You …
The COVID-19 Pandemic Didn’t Stop This California Cop From Getting Physical During a Teen Smoking Arrest
Given the COVID-19 pandemic, some officials have rolling back enforcement of low-level offenses. But many police continue to use force against nonviolent offenders, social distancing be damned. A video shows …
Justin Amash Becomes the First Libertarian Member of Congress
After a half-century of existence, the Libertarian Party (L.P.) this morning wakes up to a situation it has never before experienced—with a sitting member of Congress proudly waving the Libertarian …
Alaskan School District Gets Rid of The Great Gatsby, 4 Other ‘Controversial’ Books
In what has to be one of the most bafflingly uneducated decisions a school district has ever made, officials representing Alaska’s Matanuska-Susitna (Mat-Su) Borough School District voted 5-2 to remove …
Islam in New York and Coronavirus
From a Friday story in The Blaze: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday that the city will take steps to provide for its Muslim community amid the …