Law

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.

9 hrs ago •

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 •

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 •

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 •

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 •

Who Owns Indiana University?

Who owns Indiana University?

Jun 9 •

Fire the Worthless Trustees of the University of Florida

[Note: IU people may find footnote 1 the most interesting part of this.]

Jun 6 •

Cornell's Alumni Trustee Election-- Unlawfully Rigged by the Trustees?

Why nonprofit corporations are more likely than for-profit corporations or governments to be corrupt

Feb 3 •

Birthright Citizenship: The Issue Is Not the 14th Amendment, but Unclean Hands

I don’t like posting twice in one day, but this issue is time-sensitive, since a judge has blocked Trump’s executive order.

Jan 24 •

Whistleblower Gary Shapley Should Be Appointed Acting Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service

[P.S.: Jason Foster tells me that Gary Shapley *does* meet the GS-15 pay requirement, and is eligible to be Acting Commissioner.]

Jan 24 •

Blatant Suppression of Free Speech by MIT: "On Pacifism" in the Student Magazine, "Written Revolution"

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is caught up in its biggest free-speech scandal since the 2019 disinvitation of Professor Dorian Abbot from…

Dec 10, 2024 •

Pete Hegseth: It Will Get Worse-- Much Worse

I already wrote about why Pete Hegseth’s adultery, lying, hypocrisy, disloyalty, ingratitude, and poor judgement make him a poor nominee for Secretary…

Dec 9, 2024 •

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