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Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. During 2019, he is serving on the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff in the office of the secretary. He is a 2017 winner of the ...
University's Free Speech Policy Is the Exception, Sadly
The good news is that on January 6, the University of Chicago published the “Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression.” Chaired by law professor Geoffrey R. Stone and consisting of six other professors, the committee forcefully affirmed the centrality to the university’s mission of the principles of free speech. The bad news is that the good news is news at all.
Book Review: In a Fragmented Age, Spotlighting the Core of What Unites Us
It is a commonplace belief that contemporary life's dizzying pace of change and its rapid multiplication of choices have fragmented American culture. The conflict between religion and secularism is only the most longstanding and obvious division.
Lawsuit Casts Harsh Light on Due Process at Colgate
Under ordinary circumstances, the facts alleged by Abrar Faiaz in the legal complaint he filed last spring in U.S. District Court in New York against Colgate University would strain credulity.
Leo Strauss' Political Philosophy: Reviled But Redeemed
“Always assume that there is one silent student in your class who is by far superior to you in head and in heart.” This is the counsel Leo Strauss, among the most consequential teachers and scholars of political philosophy in the 20th century, offered an advanced graduate student who had asked for a general rule about teaching.
U.S. Colleges' Sexual Assault Crusade
If an undergraduate were accused of committing murder, no one in charge of a U.S. college or university would think of convening a committee of students, professors, and administrators to gather and analyze evidence, prosecute, adjudicate, and mete out punishment.
A Practical Plan for Recalibrating Conservatism
Recent public opinion polls and President Obama’s serial stumbling the last few weeks are making Republicans increasingly hopeful and Democrats increasingly apprehensive that the November midterm elections will leave the GOP in control of both houses of Congress.
Liberal Bias at UC?
God and Man at Yale Turns 60
Criticizing Elites, Cultivating Excellence
Giuliani campaign: Fmr. U.S. Sen. Kasten named as foreign policy advisor
The Rudy Giuliani Presidential Committee announced today several members of Mayor Giuliani’s foreign policy team....
American Creed
What have people meant across the generations when they say, "I believe in America"?
For Love, Not Money
In high-cost urban areas, many professors are having a tough time leading a comfortable middle-class life...
Why I Turned Right: Leading Baby Boom Conservatives Chronicle Their Political Journeys
In the book "Why I Turned Right," twelve right-leaning baby boomers offer their thoughts on how and why they became conservatives...
Political Journeys, Part 1
The new, Mary Eberstadt edited anthology, Why I Turned Right: Leading Baby Boom Conservatives Chronicle Their Political Journeys is now officially out...
Do Campuses Tilt Left?
Every once in a while, something you read is so otherwise inexplicable that satire seems the safest bet...
The New New Atheism
"There is nothing new under the sun," proclaims the Book of Ecclesiastes...
The Supreme Court's looming legitimacy crisis
Real Clear Politics calculates President Bush's average approval rating at 31 percent...
New Media and Old
The pre-election message, pronounced separately by a trio of distinguished professors but reflecting broader anxieties among Democratic Party activists and media elites, was grim...
Up From Liberalism, Part Two
Tonight, I attended a party celebrating the release of the book Why I Turned Right...
What you need to know that the Candidates aren’t telling you
In what may be the longest running presidential campaign in U.S. history, the focus has changed from the economy to foreign affairs and back again...