Hoover Institution fellow Richard Epstein discusses the threat to free speech posed by the Federal Government's broad guidelines on harassment issued to universities under Title IX legislation.
“Unlike the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s, when protesters wore their Sunday best and carried themselves with heroic dignity, today’s liberal marches are marked by incoherence and downright lunacy — hats designed to evoke sexual organs, poems that scream in anger yet have no point to make, and an hysterical anti-Americanism.”
Conventional political wisdom tells us the United States is suffering from a hitherto unseen level of partisan strife paralyzing the nation and preventing our lawmakers from solving our problems.
US Supreme Court justices are now formally reviewing the arguments they heard last month in what I believe to be the most politically and economically significant case of the year: Janus v AFSCME. The ruling in Janus, which will probably be handed down in late June, has the potential to radically cut the power and funding available to state and local employees’ unions.
What factors, then, determine how individuals become wealthy? Could it be that chance plays a bigger role than anybody expected? And how can these factors, whatever they are, be exploited to make the world a better and fairer place?
Free speech is the soul of our nation and foundation of all our freedoms. Without speaking against injustice and evil, those forces will prevail by wreaking havoc and silencing opposition. Our founders recognized this timeless symptom of human nature and established freedom of speech as our first right followed by the right to bear arms to protect our rights.
Niall Ferguson, one of the world's best-known historians, claims that his colleagues have long been victims of a bias known as the drunkard search. This observational bias, also called the streetlight effect, refers to the human propensity to look for something only where the search is easiest.
