Charles Lipson
Writer, Columnist, Professor of Political Science at Freelance
Contributor at RealClear Politics
Contributor at The Spectator (World)
Peter B. Ritzma Prof Emeritus, Pol Sci, U. of Chicago; contributor to Real Clear Politics, Spectator|World, WSJ, The Telegraph, Newsweek, . and others
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3 days ago |
thespectator.com | Charles Lipson
President Trump has already dropped the first hammer on Harvard. He’s ready to drop the whole tool chest on a whole slew of universities – and it won’t be pretty. Outraged Democrats will call the punishing sanctions authoritarian, even fascist, and well beyond the authority of a constitutional officer. Republicans will back the president, saying universities had plenty of chances to correct their serious problems and did nothing.
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3 days ago |
spectator.com.au | Charles Lipson
President Trump has already dropped the first hammer on Harvard. He’s ready to drop the whole tool chest on a whole slew of universities – and it won’t be pretty. Outraged Democrats will call the punishing sanctions authoritarian, even fascist, and well beyond the authority of a constitutional officer. Republicans will back the president, saying universities had plenty of chances to correct their serious problems and did nothing.
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1 week ago |
thespectator.com | Matthew Lynn |Charles Lipson |Kate Andrews |Ian Williams
A recession now looks even more certain for the United States. Output has flattened. The chaotic implementation of Donald Trump’s tariff regime has left businesses bewildered. And consumers will soon be facing huge price rises. Of course, the US might well emerge in better shape at the end of it. The trouble is, President Trump has done nothing to prepare the voters for the pain ahead – and he will find a downturn very tough politically.
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1 week ago |
thespectator.com | Charles Lipson
Last week’s violent anti-Semitic protest at Stanford is yet another sign of a pernicious climate on many campuses. The immediate targets are Jews and Israel. The larger targets are many of the values we prize in the West. At Stanford, students broke into the university president’s office using hammers and crowbars. They proceeded to barricade themselves inside, destroy the furnishings, and scrawl noxious graffiti there and on the building outside. Some estimates say they caused $700,000 in damages.
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1 week ago |
thespectator.com | Charles Lipson |David Kaufman |Michael Evans |Dave Seminara
Last week’s violent anti-Semitic protest at Stanford is yet another sign of a pernicious climate on many campuses. The immediate targets are Jews and Israel. The larger targets are many of the values we prize in the West. At Stanford, students broke into the university president’s office using hammers and crowbars. They proceeded to barricade themselves inside, destroy the furnishings, and scrawl noxious graffiti there and on the building outside. Some estimates say they caused $700,000 in damages.
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https://t.co/qi1SSgNXpt The line between free speech and violence is clear. Too few university leaders and public officials are trying to uphold it. We can see the results in vile, anti-Semitic riots on campuses. This kind of violence, intimidation, harassment, and disruption of
https://t.co/bDaEfKWbc6 Threatening higher tariffs is a bold political move, characteristic of the Trump presidency. The question now is whether the threat will pay off with lots of good bilateral trade deals (with nearly all countries) and isolate China, which chose to