By: Carrie Campbell Severino – nationalreview.com – June 21, 2022 The First Amendment never uses the term “separation of church and state.” It instead contains two religion clauses: one that prevents Congress (or, since the 14th Amendment, the states) from passing any law establishing a state church or “respecting” such an establishment; and the other protecting the free exercise of...

By: Ilya Shapiro – wsj.com – June 6, 2022 Dean William Treanor cleared me on the technicality that I wasn’t an employee when I tweeted, but the IDEAA implicitly repealed Georgetown’s Speech and Expression Policy and set me up for discipline the next time I transgress progressive orthodoxy. Instead of participating in that slow-motion firing, I’m resigning. IDEAA speciously found...

  By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – June 6, 2022 But Mr. Shapiro was encouraged by dean William Treanor and the school’s Speech and Expression Policy, which promises to defend dissenting voices on campus. His painful education has been discovering that some speech is more protected than others. In late January, shortly before he was supposed to start at...

A 1,000-person YouGov survey last August found that just 19% of the American public thinks higher education is going in the right direction. About half (49%) say it’s going in the wrong direction. The rest weren’t sure.

By: Charles C. W. Cooke – nationalreview.com – April 21, 2022 During her appearance on the Pod Save America podcast last week, White House press secretary Jen Psaki suggested that before August 31 of this year, the Biden administration intends to make “a decision . . . about canceling student debt.” Psaki’s asseveration was thrown in casually — as an...

A Michigan university accused one of its students of breaching the school’s code of conduct because she talked about receiving a religious exemption for the COVID-19 vaccine requirement on Facebook.

A Michigan university accused one of its students of breaching the school’s code of conduct because she talked about receiving a religious exemption for the COVID-19 vaccine requirement on Facebook.

Starting in the spring of 2020, school boards and superintendents across the country faced a dreadful choice: Keep classrooms open and risk more COVID-19 deaths, or close schools and sacrifice children’s learning.

If U.S. News and World Report’s ratings can be taken seriously, Yale is home to America’s top law school. Tuition at Yale Law School is just shy of $70,000 a year plus expenses for room, board, books …

By: Charles C. W. Cooke – nationalreview.com – April 27, 2022 If President Joe Biden follows through on his threat to unilaterally “cancel” all, or any, of the $1.7 trillion in federally held student-loan debt, the Republican Party must respond to the move by taking an industrial-grade flamethrower to the status quo until it is reduced to ashes. What Biden...