The lawyer for Ward "Little Eichmanns" Churchill has invoked the famous Internet rule on Nazi analogies in his defense of his client. (Apparently the irony of it all is lost on the lawyer.) A lawyer for the professor whose remarks about Sept. 11 victims touched off a firestorm wants officials to clarify how they intend […]
CNN main link headline on the Larry Summers vote: "Harvard president fails confidence test." Are white males intrinsically less likely to pass this sort of test when administered by a bunch of politically correct academics? Are they less likely to take these sorts of tests because of the hostile test-taking environment? These are difficult questions. […]
There's an inside-baseball controversy at Rutgers University over the school paper's decision not to publish an investigative article -- and to not accept the article as a paid advertisement. If you follow the links, you can find the article -- an "expose" of some of the perks student athletes receive. The article has some pretty […]
Arnold Kling has an excellent piece up at Tech Central Station on the Larry Summers controversy. At the University of Maryland, my oldest daughter, Rachel, took a class in which one test included a question in which she was asked to respond to the statement "Gender is socially determined." This was given, not as an […]
If there was any doubt that freedom of speech on campus is only allowed for those on the left, the contrast between how Harvard President Larry Summers and Colorado University at Boulder's Ward "little Eichmanns" Churchill have been treated should have erased any doubt. To review: Larry Summers suggests that maybe men and women are […]
Colorado University professor Ward Churchill is an amoral, evil, piece of scum. (For a background on who he is and why I characterize him that way, go here.) Churchill will not, it turns out, be speaking at Hamilton College, because he's received death threats. That is wrong. However, he has also received some nasty e-mails […]
The next time your local liberal professor defends the lack of intellectual or political diversity in the academy with claims that conservatives are too stupid to be college professors, you might want to point them to this article in the Miami Herald. When the Nigerian government e-mailed University of Miami law professor Enrique Fernandez-Barros for […]
The idiot of the day is the principal of Westminster High School in Westminster, Md. Curiously, the principal isn't named in the story. Apparently it is the policy of the school that when there is a fire everyone is to evacuate the building -- except the two students who are in wheelchairs. They get to […]
Several months ago I predicted that a sympathetic judge would let Kerri Francis Dunn, the college professor that vandalized her own car with racist slurs, off with a slap on the wrist. I suspect that a sympathetic judge will probably let Dunn off with a slap on the wrist -- probation and a sizable fine. […]
A local genius (I'm being serious this time) invented a device that uses energy from ocean waves to create electricity -- winning $100,000 in a contest sponsored by the Siemens Foundation. (When I was in high school, it was known as the Westinghouse Competition.) For fun, Aaron (Goldin), a straight-A student, spent two years working […]