David Cole
Contributor at New York Review of Books
National Legal Director, ACLU; Professor at Georgetown Law; regular contributor to NY Review of Books; author of Engines of Liberty. Views expressed are my own.
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2 weeks ago |
nybooks.com | David Cole
On June 2, 1919, bombs went off in eight cities across the country. One blew the door off the house of the country’s attorney general, A. Mitchell Palmer, in Georgetown. The government’s response was to round up thousands of foreign nationals, not on charges that they were involved in the bombings but for technical immigration violations and association with communist or anarchist organizations.
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3 weeks ago |
almendron.com | David Cole
Last week the Trump administration proposed what amounts to a hostile takeover of the country’s oldest and wealthiest university. In an over-the-top letter to Harvard’s president, Alan Garber, and the senior fellow of its board, Penny Pritzker, administration officials demanded the power to overhaul and oversee what the school teaches, who it hires, and who it admits.
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3 weeks ago |
nybooks.com | David Cole
Last week the Trump administration proposed what amounts to a hostile takeover of the country’s oldest and wealthiest university. In an over-the-top letter to Harvard’s president, Alan Garber, and the senior fellow of its board, Penny Pritzker, administration officials demanded the power to overhaul and oversee what the school teaches, who it hires, and who it admits.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | David Cole |Amrit Singh
If you are systematically engaged in lawbreaking, lawyers can be very annoying. They sue, and their suits may lead courts to declare your actions illegal. So Donald Trump, who has launched his second term with a blizzard of blatantly illegal actions, many of which have been suspended by the courts, has decided to address the problem at its root. He’s targeting lawyers, punishing them for doing nothing more than filing lawsuits he opposes, or hiring lawyers he does not like.
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1 month ago |
nybooks.com | David Cole
For much of the last fifty years, academic freedom has been, you might say, academic. Its central principle—that politicians have no authority to censor the teaching, research, and writing of professors in the nation’s universities—was so well accepted that it was rarely even tested. No more. Academic freedom today is under attack in ways the country has not seen since the cold war. Yet at the very moment it is most needed, universities seem reluctant to defend it.
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“Giving into a mob boss is the beginning, not the end, of one’s servitude.” Why Harvard chose not to appease, but to fight. And why it may be the most important fight for academic freedom in decades. Why Harvard Defied Him https://t.co/gWGsDIk5CU via @nybooks
