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The Real Meaning of the Baseball-Boys-on-Boxes Cartoon: Inefficiency Is Bad

This classic cartoon is wonderful in depiction and discussable in message.

Oct 6 • 

Eric Rasmusen

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September 2025

Should People Glad Charlie Kirk Is Dead Be Punished?

Hate speech, ugly speech, gross speech, and evil speech are all somewhat subjective.

Sep 23 • 

Eric Rasmusen

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Jeff Sagarin's Visits to My 7th-Grade Math Class and the Pythagorean Theorem of Baseball, a Present for His 77th Birthday

Jeff Sagarin, the famed sports mathematician who supplied numbers to USA Today till they couldn’t afford him any more a couple of years ago, visited my…

Sep 8 • 

Eric Rasmusen

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August 2025

Loyalty Oaths, Diversity Statements, and Free Speech Oaths

Loyalty Oaths

Aug 19 • 

Eric Rasmusen

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The 2025 Suit against Professor DeGraff and MIT for Anti-Semitism

A story has been circulating about a Jewish PhD student in computer science at MIT who was the target of such an intense internet harassment campaign by…

Aug 3 • 

Eric Rasmusen

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July 2025

NetChoice v. Paxton Redux: Algorithm Disclosure

Postscript.

Jul 31 • 

Eric Rasmusen

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Good News for the Cancelled Club

Recently I decided write a letter to “The Cancelled Club,” the various people I’ve met who’ve been pestered by online mobs.

Jul 25 • 

Eric Rasmusen

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U. of North Texas Pays Prof. Timothy Jackson $725,000 for Defaming Him

Timothy Jackson is a professor of music theory at the University of North Texas who specializes in Schenkerian analysis, one of the standard methods for…

Jul 13 • 

Eric Rasmusen

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Is Indiana University Eliminating 116 Low-Enrollment Degrees? Not Really. But It Should Eliminate Some High-Enrollment Degrees

Indiana University announced it is eliminating 116 degrees, including the Statistics, Earth Sciences, and Computational Linguistics B.S.’s, the Art…

Jul 9 • 

Eric Rasmusen

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June 2025

The Trial of UCLA Business School Dean Anthony Bernardo for Suspending and Libelling Gordon Klein

Tuesday, July 1 begins the trial of Anthony Bernardo, Dean of UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, on allegations by Continuing Lecturer Gordon Klein…

Jun 30 • 

Eric Rasmusen

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University Post-Tenure Review

The state legislature having required post-tenure review at Indiana University, the Trustees recently approved a Post-Tenure Review Policy. The idea is…

Jun 25 • 

Eric Rasmusen

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Who Should Be Blamed for Poor Drafting of University Policies?

What should college trustees do when the college legal department gives bad legal advice?

Jun 20 • 

Eric Rasmusen

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