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Jan 6, 2025 | 
fairfieldsuntimes.com | Juliana Geran Pilon
Not until quite recently did American colleges cease being free expression zones. After University of Chicago professor Allan Bloom sounded the alarm with his bestselling The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students in 1987, the intellectual aperture diminished gradually until it atrophied, during the last couple of years, to a mere sliver.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | David Hebert |Daniel Mahoney |Nadya Williams |Juliana Geran Pilon
For years, Republicans have vowed to focus on the biggest issue plaguing the United States: our federal debt. Now, in the wake of their victory earlier this month, they have a chance to make good on those promises.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | John O. McGinnis |Nadya Williams |Juliana Geran Pilon |James Hankins
The debate over disinformation today reveals a fundamental divide not merely between Republicans and Democrats, but between two philosophies of human nature that both trace their lineage to the Enlightenment. Those advocating government suppression of disinformation believe that individuals are products of their environment, molded by the inputs they receive.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | James Hankins |Nadya Williams |Juliana Geran Pilon |John O. McGinnis
The policies of the incoming administration with regard to the federal role in education, despite a great deal of fearmongering during the election season, have not yet taken shape. Though the administration nominated Linda McMahon for Secretary of Education this week, the administration’s priorities in education are being assessed on the basis of statements made by candidates during the election.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Musa al-Gharbi |Jesse Smith |Nadya Williams |Juliana Geran Pilon
The phenomenon colloquially known as “wokeness” has been subject to a number of analyses in recent years. For the most part, these focus on the development of woke ideas and how they have gained social influence. Some accounts point to left-modern liberalism, others emphasize postmodernism or critical theory.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Scott Yenor |Nadya Williams |Juliana Geran Pilon |John O. McGinnis
More than a dozen states have banned DEI offices, DEI statements, and trainings in the past year and a half with varying degrees of success. Some states like Utah and Wyoming have made mostly paper changes. Other states like Texas and Florida have seen actual dismantling of DEI offices. Dismantling DEI offices limits the top-down corruption of universities. But it does little to establish a better educational vision in higher education or to change the direction of corrupt disciplines.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Noah C. Gould |Nadya Williams |Juliana Geran Pilon
In defiance of a higher education landscape dominated by progressive ideology, a handful of colleges are seeking to create an alternative. These institutions are following three distinct strategies. First, some religious schools, such as the University of Dallas or Colorado Christian University, have doubled down on a traditional religious identity. Second, startups such as the University of Austin (UATX) are staking out a classical liberal alternative.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Benjamin Nathans |Nadya Williams |Juliana Geran Pilon |John O. McGinnis
Judged against other world empires, the Soviet Union had a short lifespan. The communist regime did not even last a full century: only a mere sixty-nine years passed from the Russian Revolution to the dissolution of the USSR. That is one year less than the Jews’ biblical exile to Babylon. And yet, the history of some aspects of that brief existence is only now coming to light. The USSR was a notoriously closed, secretive place.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Daniel Klein |Robert G. Natelson |Juliana Geran Pilon |John O. McGinnis
Law & Liberty published “The Electoral College in Context” by Robert G. Natelson—who provides historical context to help us appreciate the wisdom behind the Electoral College in the US system of electing the executive. The main point of controversy today is that, as compared to a straight national popular-vote determination, the Electoral College apportions a bit more sway to less-populous states.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Patrick M. Garry |Democracy. He |Juliana Geran Pilon |John O. McGinnis
The political left lacks any subtlety in its attitudes toward free speech and the First Amendment. Indeed, whenever liberals cite the First Amendment, they inevitably argue for downgrading it from the pinnacle of constitutional provisions. Although the left once stood up for speech rights, now it seems to think of the First Amendment’s protections not as a command, but simply a consideration. The left’s shifting attitudes towards free speech have become blatant in the last five years.
