by jpitney | Sep 30, 2023 | Budget, Congress, House of Representatives
Sarah Ferris and Burgess Everett at Politico: Members old enough to remember the 1990s are now looking to that era’s nasty stalemate between Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich as the most apt comparison to their current predicament. Even former Speaker Gingrich...
by jpitney | Sep 29, 2023 | Bipartisanship, California Politics, Civility, Senate
Veteran journalist Jerry Roberts at WP on the passing of Senator Dianne Feinstein: Feinstein has died at the age of 90. In political time, her demise seems far more than the end of a mere era — more like the passing of an eon. As politician, policymaker and uncommonly...
by jpitney | Sep 28, 2023 | Free Speech, Higher Education
Ryan Quinn at Inside Higher Ed: A conservative Princeton University professor tried to give a speech this month at Washington College centering on the need for campus free speech. Students disrupted his talk and succeeded in ending it. It was another example of what...
by jpitney | Sep 26, 2023 | Claremont McKenna College, Journalism
DREIER ROUNDTABLE OP-ED CONTEST CMC’s Dreier Roundtable is pleased to announce the Fall 2023 op-ed writing contest. Entries should be in the form of an op-ed article, of the kinds that appear in newspapers and news sites. The op-ed may concern any issue in public...
by jpitney | Sep 25, 2023 | Free Speech, Polarization, Public Opinion, Uncategorized
At RealClearPolitics, Carl Cannon reports on a new survey: Traditionally, opposing censorship — whether imposed by government or corporations — was a bedrock principle of liberalism in this country. The American Civil Liberties Union was founded in 1920 to promote and...
