by jpitney | Apr 25, 2022 | Debate, Deliberation, Higher Education
Eleventh Circuit decision in Speech First, Inc. v. Cartwright: speech policies at the University of Central Florida likely violate the First Amendment. [In] determining the propriety of preliminary injunctive relief[, we consider, among other things, whether plaintiff...
by jpitney | Apr 24, 2022 | Civility, Congress, Senate
Orrin Hatch has died. From the AP obit: A conservative on most economic and social issues, he nonetheless teamed with Democrats several times during his long career on issues ranging from stem cell research to rights for people with disabilities to expanding...
by jpitney | Apr 23, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists, Ukraine
David Hume Kennerly at NYT: Many of the photographs of the war in Ukraine deserve to live as indelibly on the public record as those photos of Vietnam. We can only see the extent of the Russian-made horror because of these photos and the photographers who have risked,...
by jpitney | Apr 22, 2022 | Journalism
Yesterday, the Honorable David Dreier came to Claremont McKenna College and spoke to winners of the Dreier Roundtable Op-Ed Contest: Henry Schulz, Henry Long, Yara Ismael, Jayson Yasukochi, Marisa Mestichella, Aryan Totawat, Georgia Tuckerman, India Way, Samantha...
by jpitney | Apr 21, 2022 | Civility, Congress, House of Representatives, Insurrection, Ukraine
From the JFK Library: For the first time ever, the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award will honor five individuals — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, Arizona Representative Russell “Rusty”...
