No civil rights law on the books requires “viewpoint diversity” in university admissions or hiring or creates a protected class of students or faculty based on ideological views.
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This question came to mind from reading Edward Curtin’s essays, “At the Lost and Found,” (Clarity Press, 2025), in which he shares with readers his intellectual encounters with the rising criminality of the governments of the United States since the 1960s. Edward Curtin is a decent person with a sense of justice and a moral conscience, traits more common in his time than today. I found his moral responses reassuring, and wonder if recent generations would respond in the […]
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The way Americans talk about government efforts to boost birth rates is always odd. Since conservatives want more people to get married and have children, those opposed to conservatives often declare this an unworthy and nefarious goal. But encouraging marriage and parenthood, per se, isn’t the issue. The real problem here is that pronatalist policies, as traditionally understood, just don’t work. Around the world, we’ve seen pronatalist policies fail. Even those that “succeed”—loosely speaking—tend to only shift the […]
On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at “restoring freedom of speech.” But judging from his administration’s policies and his actions as a private litigant, Trump’s commitment to that principle is highly selective at best. Last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that he was “taking a crucial step toward keeping the president’s promise to liberate American speech” by ending his department’s misbegotten crusade against online “disinformation.” This […]
