by jpitney | May 18, 2023 | Free Speech, Higher Education
2/ Of course, smart, sophisticated, high achieving people can be wrong, have been wrong, and indeed are wrong about many things. That is why thinking for oneself–and not outsourcing one’s thinking–is so critically important. — Robert P. George🇻🇦🇺🇸🪕...
by jpitney | May 17, 2023 | Civility, Debate, Higher Education
Lamar Alexander at WSJ: When the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, the University of California’s president denounced the decision as “antithetical” to UC’s values. Vanderbilt University’s new chancellor took a different approach. Daniel Diermeier, who was...
by jpitney | May 16, 2023 | Journalism, Journalists
A.G,.Sulzberger writes at CJR: Our nation’s history shows independent journalism not only makes our society more informed, it makes our nation more secure, our economy stronger, our people healthier, our society more just. Systematically undermining independent...
by jpitney | May 15, 2023 | China, Russia, Taiwan, Ukraine
Josh Ro=gin at WP: “Ukraine’s survival is Taiwan’s survival. Ukraine’s success is Taiwan’s success,” Taiwan’s representative in Washington, Bi-khim Hsiao, told the McCain Institute’s Sedona Forum last weekend. “Our futures are closely linked.” … Hsiao said...
by jpitney | May 14, 2023 | Journalism, Journalists
The Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation issued the following statement to mark the 20th anniversary of the deaths of Michael Kelly, David Bloom and Elizabeth Neuffer, and other journalists who died while reporting on the Iraq War. “This April and May, we remember...
