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Ben Sasse on Speech and Protest at the University of Florida
Ben Sasse, President of the University of Florida, has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal explaining his approach to speech and protest at UF. The op-ed articulates three principles that other universities may wish to follow. First, universities must distinguish between speech and action. Speech is central to education. We’re in the business of discovering […]
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WSJ: How Campus Anti-Israel Protestors Were Encouraged and Trained By Outside Activists
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article explaining how the leaders of campus protests learned some of their strategies and tactics from national organizations and outside activists. It begins: The recent wave of pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses came on suddenly and shocked people across the nation. But the political tactics underlying some of the demonstrations […]
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“Not In Our Name”: Tablet on the Antisemitism Awareness Act
Last week, the House of Representatives passed the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act of 2023 by an overwhelming margin. Some critics of the law are concerned about its definition of what constitutes antisemitism. My co-blogger David Bernstein thinks such criticisms are overblown, while Eugene Volokh fears the definition could chill legitimate (and non-antisemitic) criticism of Israel. The […]
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Trump’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad 2nd Term
Millions of us are justifiably focused on seeing that Donald Trump is held to account for what he’s allegedly done in the past.
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Biden Can’t Win in a Fair Election Against Trump
Former President Donald Trump is getting dragged through the courts via the “lawfare” charges manufactured against him – and seemingly millions of liberals and Democrats are ecstatic. Chaos, turmoil and pain such as this can feel exhilarating when it’s the other side’s ox being gored.
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Kennedy Jr.’s Plan To Make Biden Drop Out
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says President Joe Biden is the real “spoiler” in the 2024 presidential race, and he has a plan to make Biden drop out.
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The Adults Are Still in Charge at the University of Florida
Higher education isn’t daycare. Here are the rules we follow on free speech and public protests.
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The Lessons From Colleges That Didn’t Call the Police
Deescalating conflict around protests was possible, but many colleges turned to law enforcement instead.
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Protesters Urged To Re-Create ‘the Summer of 2020’
The People’s Forum’s operations are made possible in large part by a $12 million donation from Goldman Sachs’s charitable arm.
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Biden’s Student Problem
The Perils of Pandering–The campus mess metastasizes. With immigration fading as an issue for the moment-the Mexican government has decided to help Biden staunch the flow-anarchy, spiced by overweening privilege, emerges as a possible flashpoint in the coming election. The ways and means of elite universities stand as a metaphor for the road the academic-left […]
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