The Orlando shootings were not an opportunity to talk about gun control and cry out at the system, nor was it simply a hate crime. While President Obama refuses to admit it, the attacks on…
Topic: FBI
College Chancellor Avoids Talking about Terrorism or ISIS after FBI Finishes Stabbing Spree Investigation
Faisal Mohammed stabbed four people before being shot and killed at UC-Merced, but the school’s chancellor, Dorothy Leland, didn’t mention the word “terror” a single time in a brief statement. Neither did she mention ISIS…
Questioning Academic Authority on Guns
Maybe it’s time we revived that phrase “question authority.” “The president’s ironclad confidence in the conclusiveness of the science, and therefore the desirability of ‘common-sense gun safety laws,’ is echoed widely with every new mass shooting, from…
Professors for Empty Prisons
Professors who rail against the imprisonment of blacks rarely show as much interest in black victims of crime. “In 1980, there were 500,000 Americans in prison or jail,” Jason Stanley writes in The Chronicle Review….