These comments in Letters to the Editor, are very, very good. ========== WSJ Letters to the Editor, 3/14/2017 Jay Parini and Keegan Callanan, professors at Middlebury College, have set out principles for their institution following the campus mob action that prevented Charles Murray “from communicating with his audience.” (“Middlebury’s Statement of Principle,” op-ed, March 7). Setting out principles is the easy part. The challenge... Read more
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Middlebury’s Principles Require Discipline – Letters
March 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, The LeftMcCarthyism At Middlebury
March 12 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Henninger, Losing Freedom, Politically correctI hope that Mr Henninger is correct, but I am not betting a lot of money on it. ===== Daniel Henniger, WSJ 3/11/2017 The violence committed against Charles Murray and others at Middlebury College is a significant event in the annals of free speech. Since the day the Founding Fathers planted the three words, “freedom of speech,” in the First Amendment to the... Read more
The Mob at Middlebury
March 3 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Politically correct, The LeftAnd the coverage and outrage? ====== WSJ March 3, 2017 7:15 p.m. ET Once again a scholar invited to speak at a university has been shouted down by an angry mob clearly unable to challenge him intellectually. On Thursday at Middlebury College, allegedly an institution of higher learning, a crowd of protesters tried to run Charles Murray off campus. Mr. Murray is the... Read more
Who’s Afraid of Student Journalists?
February 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Liberal Press, Losing Freedom, Politically correctThis story first broke by the New York Times? =================== By John J. Miller WSJ 2/9/2017 Riots last week at the University of California, Berkeley stopped Milo Yiannopoulos, a rightwing provocateur who contributes to Breitbart News, from speaking on campus. The violence forced the cancellation of his event and inflicted $100,000 in damage to school property, according to administrators. Then it spread to New... Read more
A Libel Suit Threatens Catastrophe
February 6 | Posted by mrossol | Global Warming, Law, Losing Freedom, Politically correctIf the left wants to take off the gloves, perhaps that is what should happen. ===== By MICHAEL A. CARVIN and ANTHONY DICK WSJ Feb. 5, 2017 8:16 p.m. ET The First Amendment provides robust protection for political and scientific debate, but it faces a new threat from a climate activist determined to silence his critics. In a case pending before the District of... Read more
Abandoned by America
January 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Politically correctHeavy sigh. We sure have abandoned many… ===== A Great Place to Have a War, By Joshua Kurlantzick Simon & Schuster, 323 pages, £22.79 BY MARK MOYAR AS THE OBAMA administration walked out the door, tributes from adoring media and entertainment outlets drowned out the accusations of abandonment emanating from erstwhile friends and allies of the United States. Syrians who wanted American help in saving... Read more
