Overlooked in the media coverage of and academic debate about physician-assisted suicide: it’s not the people most likely to receive it who are promoting it. “It’s the well off and healthy who are calling for it,”…
Monthly Archives For April 2015
Colleges Can’t Hide Info Behind Student Privacy Laws, Illinois Says
The state of Illinois Attorney General says that their state universities cannot keep hiding behind student privacy laws to keep information from being released. Good.
Culture War Not So 90s
In his first campaign for the presidency, then-Senator Barack Obama, D-Ill, declared that the phrase “culture war” was “so 90s.” Nevertheless, there are strong indications, seven years later, that the conflict is still with us,…
Israel Divestment Student Vote Passed in Close Vote
Even the university’s chapter of the Red Cross voted in favor of divesting from Israel, but the national organization said it is politically neutral and that the student chapter does not represent their mission or…
Adam Smith Rocks!
There’s a reason you don’t see many Adam Smith ties in the faculty lounge. “Adam Smith believed there are few things that the government should do,” James Otteson of Wake Forest said at the Philadelphia…
Conservative Faculty at risk in Media-Fueled Outrage in RFRA Spat
Will universities attack (i.e. fire) conservative faculty for their conservative views, in light of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) backlash in the liberal media? We hope not, but you never know.
NCAA Offended by Indiana RFRA Law, but not 19 Other States’ RFRA Laws
Selective outrage, considering that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) is a federal law and there are 19 states other than Indiana that have these RFRA laws on the books.
University of Delaware Rebuffs Congressman’s Efforts to Harass Climate Change Skeptic
A climatology professor, David Legates, at the university is in the cross-hairs of a Democratic congressman, who is upset that the professor’s research is striking at the heart of climate change alarmism.