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29 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I don't see a threat to academic freedom from administrators trying to force a consensus on the Rittenhouse verdict. What I do see is the NRA and its allies in politics and academia trying to force a consensus on laws that allow a 17 year old to use an AR-15 at a protest rally.
Do our politicians not see anything wrong with the law allowing a 17 year old to bring an AR-15 to a protest rally? No wonder students on college campuses, particularly in urban areas, are scared for their lives. That's the real "academic freedom" issue. The time to act is now.
It's about time college students ask their professors and administrators why campuses, particularly in urban areas, are becoming war zones. I discussed part of the problem here in 2012. It's only gotten worse.
nytimes.com/2012/12/20/opi…
Professors speak out on issues all the time. They also grade papers and write recommendations for students. It is ridiculous to claim that anyone’s academic freedom is interfered with when administrators also express concerns about guns, racism, climate change or anything else.

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19 Nov
Two of the dumbest political and economic philosophies in the history of civilization are Marxism and unregulated capitalism. Failure to regulate banks is a sure way to cause a collapse that puts Marxists or other authoritarians in control.
Confirm her.
finance.yahoo.com/news/senators-…
I have yet to meet an intelligent person in America who believes in either Marxism or unregulated capitalism. Our capitalist economy will thrive if we find the middle ground and stay there. Saule Omarova should be confirmed for OCC.
If I saw a shred of sympathy for Marxist economics or philosophy in any of the many publications Saule Omarova has written in the United States, I would have strongly opposed her nomination to the OCC.
It's simply not there. The Senate GOP is telling a boldfaced lie!
Shameful!
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18 Nov
The University of Chicago for decades has lived in an intellectual bubble, indulging in abstract theory while crime overtakes the surrounding community. Better policing is a solution, but so are racial justice, affordable housing, and economic opportunity.
wgntv.com/news/chicago-n…
The solution is NOT the U. of Chicago law professors telling law deans to be silent about racism and the killing of George Floyd and other unarmed Black men. Reforming policing is essential to fighting crime, and all community leaders need to be part of the conversation.
Here's an idea: How about U. Chicago academics stop whining about "cancel culture" and people being too "woke" and instead focus on sky rocketing crime, racism, lack of housing and limited economic opportunity in the surrounding neighborhood.
chicagobusiness.com/education/univ…
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4 Nov
Why does the University of Minnesota have higher in-state tuition than flagship campuses in surrounding states?
Let's start with a bought election to the Board of Regents.
We need a new legislature and a new governor. Voters have had enough!
startribune.com/lawmakers-rege…
Card games in an academic program? How about lower tuition, less spending and letting students play cards on their own?
startribune.com/bridge-playing…
U. of Minnesota tuition is over three times tuition in 2000. How many families (other than families of politicians and PAC donors) do you know who make three times what they made in 2000?
Tuition is 12 times more than in 1980.
Time to boot the politicians.
ohe.state.mn.us/dPg.cfm?pageID…
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2 Nov
Attn. law professors:
Earn $1000 honorarium and trip to Squaw Creek ski resort. Learn all about free market economics and evils of government regulation. Let the corporate donors foot the bill!
There's an even fancier program too -- but that's for judges.
masonlec.org/events/worksho…
"public choice, including interest group theory, rent-seeking, rent-extraction, agency capture, bureaucracy and constitutional economics, regulatory competition, the political theory of loopholes, Bootleggers and Baptists phenomena, and public choice of the judiciary."
Bootleggers and Baptists is a theory about opposing groups supporting regulation that benefits them but not the public. E.g. Prohibition. Then we can compare all government regulation to Prohibition.
But let's not talk about abortion. That might upset the right wing donors.
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2 Nov
Did Leiter bother to check this person's blog before promoting her. She posted (see comment below) saying Biden's DOJ Civil Rights head, Obama’s 21st Century Policing Task Force, the Yale administration and myself are all "Woke KKK."
MAGA Meltdown?
Yup.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2021/09/b…
Leiter makes a fundraising pitch for the litigation against Yale here. What is he trying to accomplish with this?
Makes absolutely no sense.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2021/02/s…
This person just opened a Patreon account and is using this "woke" theme and attacks on myself and others to raise money. We have entered the realm of the absurd.
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31 Oct
Trump Administration officials were "doing deals and lots of favors for people, including foreign countries. Then they go out into the private sector and are finding they made a lot of friends in government and now they’re being rewarded.”
Cashing in....
nytimes.com/2021/10/31/us/…
"gives, offers, or promises anything of value to any public official, former public official, or person selected to be a public official, for or because of any official act performed or to be performed by such public official, former public official...
18 USC 201.
law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18…
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