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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
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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
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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
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Eric Rasmusen
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August 2025
Loyalty Oaths, Diversity Statements, and Free Speech Oaths
Loyalty Oaths
Aug 19
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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
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Eric Rasmusen
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July 2025
NetChoice v. Paxton Redux: Algorithm Disclosure
Postscript.
Jul 31
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Eric Rasmusen
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