- “What student protestors should learn from bygone free speech fights” [Conor Friedersdorf]
- You’d expect Oberlin students to have some of the very best demands and you won’t be disappointed [Blake Neff/Daily Caller, my earlier Storify on student demands around the country] “Soon enough, microaggression monitoring was on the table” at Occidental College, and secret snitches will help [Scott Greenfield] President of Washington, D.C.’s American University responds to student demands. tl;dr version: “How high?”
- Diversity means cracking down on religious colleges that discriminate based on church dogma. Right? [Scott Greenfield] Human Rights Campaign huffs and puffs about (perfectly legal) religious-college Title IX exemptions [Washington Post, HRC] Canadian judge: B.C. provincial law society wrongly barred accreditation for conservative Christian law school [Globe and Mail, earlier]
- Just out: “Free Speech on College Campuses” issue of Cato Unbound leads with Greg Lukianoff (“Campus Free Speech Has Been in Trouble for a Long Time”), with responses to follow from Eric Posner and Catherine Ross;
- The year in campus hysteria [Ashe Schow/Examiner]
- Feds’ diversity bureaucracy has engaged in epic power grab in past couple of years, Congress’s omnibus spending bill rewards them with 7 percent funding hike [PowerLine, Bader and earlier, Schow/Examiner]
- “ACLU Silence Enables Campus Anti-free Speech Movement” [Nat Hentoff; related, Emily Ekins]
Archive for 2016
Among other high costs of Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. city council plans $1,000 speeding tickets, officials insist it’s Not About the Money [Washington Post]
“Freedom of association and antidiscrimination law”
Richard Epstein attempts “an imperfect reconciliation” between the irresistible force of modern anti-discrimination law and the all-too-movable object of free association principles [Law and Liberty]
Journalistic embarrassment? You’re soaking in it
The latest round of controversy between the New York Times and Reason magazine over the paper’s investigation of nail salons did not go well for the Times [Jim Epstein, earlier]
Great moments in being from the government and here to help you
“IRS Employee Whose Job Was Assisting Victims Of Identity Theft Charged In $1 Million Identity Theft Tax Fraud” [Paul Caron/TaxProf ] More: Tim Cushing, TechDirt.
“If it’s unwanted, it’s harassment”
Public service posters on the D.C. Metro proclaim the slogan “If it’s unwanted, it’s harassment,” which must have sounded good to someone but is entirely wrong as a legal matter [David Post]
California AG wants nonprofits’ donor lists
“Do you donate to the Sierra Club or the National Rifle Association? California Attorney General Kamala Harris wants to know who you are, what your address is and how much you give….
“Every American has the right to support the causes we believe in without the fear of harassment and retaliation. Disclosure mandates undermine this basic freedom, dry up donations to charities and silence political speech.” [Jon Riches, Sacramento Bee]