by jpitney | Aug 26, 2023 | China, Russia, Ukraine
Nathan Gardels at Noema: Sometimes your best friend can be your worst enemy. This is the case today with the “no limits” relationship of Russian President Vladimir Putin and China’s paramount leader Xi Jinping. Not only has Putin’s invasion of Ukraine...
by jpitney | Aug 25, 2023 | Journalism, Journalists, Texas
Lauren Walker at WP: The Texas Tribune, the pioneering digital news organization, laid off 11 percent of its staff Wednesday, renewing worries about the sustainability of local nonprofit journalism. “There is no media company — commercial, nonprofit or public — that...
by jpitney | Aug 24, 2023 | Russia, Uncategorized, Vaccine
Professor Andrew Busch: As for escalation, Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Medvedev have been threatening it since February 2022. But Putin, no longer a Marxist, is assuredly still at heart a Leninist, and it was Lenin who advised his followers “You probe with bayonets: if...
by jpitney | Aug 23, 2023 | Free Speech, Higher Education
Samuel J. Abrams and Harvey Silverglate at AEI: A new survey from North Dakota State University’s Challey Institute shows just how ingrained the idea that students can censor others on campus is today. The Challey survey found that 74 percent of students surveyed...
by jpitney | Aug 22, 2023 | Civil Rights, Conservative', Higher Education
Samuel Abrams at AEI: Difference that drives progress is a spectacular ideal for higher education, but far too many schools are failing in practice. At Columbia University, a DEI office explicitly states that they “are committed to centering race in our pursuit of...
