It’s Time to Retire the Silicon Valley Mythos
Google, like any corporation, has wide latitude to fire its employees for any number of reasons. And Google, like any corporation, is entitled to attach any conditions it wishes to its philanthropic...
View ArticleThe DACA Fight and the End of Politics
“If you want to keep DACA, here’s a thought,” one conservative tweeter noted wryly in response to the torrent of outrage that met President Trump’s decision to scrap the program, “make a proposal that...
View ArticleThe Statistic That Explains the Trump Presidency
A new report from the Public Religion Research Institute contains the following remarkable tidbit: “Fewer than one in three (29%) Democrats today are white Christian, compared to half (50%) one decade...
View ArticleBetsy DeVos Came Out Swinging for Due Process on Campus. Will It Matter?
In an address at George Mason University Law School yesterday, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos issued a blistering indictment of the state of campus sexual assault tribunals. In the course of its...
View ArticleThe Overton Window Moves on Healthcare
Leading establishment figures in the Democratic Party are coming around to Bernie Sanders’ proposal—once considered a left-wing moonshot—to create a massive, federally-funded health insurance system....
View ArticleThe Militant Pragmatism of Hillary Clinton
The figure that emerges from Hillary Clinton’s 50-minute sit-down with Ezra Klein to discuss the 2016 election and her vision of politics is at once sympathetic and maddeningly hypocritical.The first...
View ArticleA Run on Liberalism?
The tide of illiberalism that has swept over American academia for the past few years isn’t just about a few rambunctious hecklers or a militant fringe. In fact, skepticism of the idea of free and open...
View ArticleDear Colleague Letter, 2011-2017
The 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter, a notorious piece of Obama Administration guidance that pushed campuses to put in place more draconian procedures for adjudicating sexual assault accusations—and set...
View ArticleIlliberalism Is Expensive
After rioters shot fireworks at buildings, attacked students and smashed windows during a Milo Yiannopoulos appearance at UC Berkeley in February, the university has beefed up security in response to...
View ArticleIncome Gap Narrows as Culture Gap Widens
Americans at the low end of the pay scale have been getting bigger raises than those at the top over the last few years—a marked (if perhaps temporary) reversal of the decades-long trend toward higher...
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