Failure to Condemn Calls for Genocide

Katherine Knott at Inside Higher Ed: The failure of three college presidents to clearly say Tuesday that calling for the genocide of Jewish people violated their campus policies quickly went viral on social media—galling alumni, free speech experts and advocates in...

Civility and Legislative Productivity

Schreckhise, W., Pierce, J., Benjamin, F., Lovrich, N., & Button, E. (2023). Legislative Civility, Gridlock, Polarization, and Productivity. State Politics & Policy Quarterly, 1-22. doi:10.1017/spq.2023.23 To what extent are more civil legislatures able to...

Losing the News

Serge Schmemann at NYT writes about local media It was a school, too, for readers. The candidates in local elections or speakers at school board meetings dealt with matters that made a tangible and immediate difference to readers. Official corruption was not some...

Antisemitism on Campuses

From ADL: To better understand the current state of the campus climate for Jewish students, the ADL Center for Antisemitism Research (CAR), Hillel International, and College Pulse conducted a longitudinal survey of American college students before and after the Hamas...

Civility and Justice O’Connor

Evan Thomas at WP: O’Connor, who cast the decisive vote in 330 cases over 24-plus years on the court and wrote the controlling opinions on major social issues such as abortion and affirmative action, understood that power and influence should be wielded with good...

Kissinger at Sunnylands

Henry Kissinger just passed at the age of 100.  From ten years ago: Beijing, August 2, 2013–Henry Kissinger, the distinguished former U.S. Secretary of State, has joined the advisory board of The Annenberg-Dreier Commission at Sunnylands. Kissinger’s appointment was...

Schumer on Antisemitism

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY): While the dead bodies of Jewish Israelis were still warm, while hundreds of Jewish Israelis were being carried as hostages back to Hamas tunnels under Gaza, Jewish Americans were alarmed to see some of our fellow citizens...

Bad Blood on the Hill

Donald Wolfensberger at The Hill: While much is made of the “assaults and affrays” that occurred in Congress during the run-up to the Civil War, the precedents are filled with other incidents that took place during other periods in our history. Most of these are...