Overlawyered: Chronicling The High Cost Of Our Legal System

Campus climate roundup

  • Pauli Murray, civil rights activist after whom Yale recently named a residential college, stood up for her worst foes’ right to speak [Peter Salovey, New York Times] Viewing everything through lens of identity and power disables the intellect [Jonathan Haidt]
  • Penn Jillette and free speech scholars ask Brandeis president to reconsider decision to ditch play about comedian Lenny Bruce [FIRE]
  • Isolated outrages, or straws in the wind? Lindsay Shepherd and Wilfred Laurier University [Tristin Hopper, National Post] Student’s remark about religion at University of Texas, San Antonio [Robby Soave, Reason] Roll your eyes at a faculty meeting and you could be in so much Title IX trouble [Nicholas Wolfinger, Quillette]
  • “Bias Response Teams Thwarted in Their Goal of a Sensitive Campus by the First Amendment” [Liz Wolfe, Reason, earlier]
  • 49% of college students say supporting someone else’s right to say racist things “as bad as holding racist views yourself” [Emily Ekins on Cato free speech survey] Related: John Samples; Eugene Volokh;
  • Testimony by Prof. Nadine Strossen at Senate hearing on free speech, hate speech, and college campuses [Collins/Concurring Opinions]

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5 Comments

  • Nicholas Wolfinger and Laura Kipnis, bless both of them: frigate-built intellects among an armada of scows filled with bureautrash.

  • Wilfred Laurier is a University, not a College (this information is readily available in the first paragraph of the linked column from The National Post). Unlike the United States where the two terms are seemingly interchangeable, there is a difference between them in Canada.

    • By Edward

    • Thanks for the correction, fixed in text now.

    • ” Unlike the United States where the two terms are seemingly interchangeable, there is a difference between them in Canada.”

      There’s a difference in the US too, in the academic community and government usage, but the general public tends to conflate the two terms.

      • By MattS

      • Yes and no. In the US in technical contexts academics may distinguish the two terms, but in casual usage they do not. I am an academic who grew up in an academic family, yet in the US (I now live in Canada) I describe someone as “going to college” even if the institution is a university, whereas here in Canada one would talk about someone “going to university” unless the institution actually is a “college”.