by jpitney | Feb 29, 2024 | Cancel Culture, Higher Education
Robert P. George: The truth-seeking enterprise precludes the university from punishing the expression of a view on the ground that the ideas expressed are false or harmful. That is because such viewpoint restrictions, as I will call them, tend to hamper both the...
by jpitney | Feb 28, 2024 | Congress, Deliberation, House of Representatives, Madison
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: In grappling for an appropriate analogy for this new procedural game in town, I finally settled on circle dodgeball, labeled here as “procedural dodgeball.” A large circle is drawn and, in the middle a smaller circle with five or so...
by jpitney | Feb 26, 2024 | Biden, Bipartisanship, Civility
Darlene Superville at AP: President Joe Biden and Utah Gov. Spencer Cox disagree on many issues but they were united Saturday in calling for less bitterness in politics and more bipartisanship. “Politics has gotten too personally bitter,” said Biden, who has practiced...
by jpitney | Feb 25, 2024 | California Politics, Journalism, Journalists
Cameron Joseph at The Columbia Journalism Review: Now California lawmakers are seriously considering the California Journalism Preservation Act, a bill modeled on those countries’ laws with the aim of arresting and reversing the decline in local media. It would be the...
by jpitney | Feb 24, 2024 | Journalism, Journalists
Many posts have dealt with news media. Newspapers are struggling and online publications also have problems. Olivia Rosane at Common Dreams: Vice CEO Bruce Dixon sent a memo to employees on Thursday announcing that the company was laying off hundreds of workers and...
