(Gabriella Borter/Reuters) Both as a law student and a guest speaker I felt unwelcome at Yale. Ted Cruz’s investigation can be a step toward increasing true diversity and tolerance. Senator Ted Cruz’s ongoing investigation into Yale Law School over its treatment of Christians and conservatives is a good thing for American education. As a Yale

Presidential candidates and the media keep telling people “it’s immoral” that a few rich people have so much more money than everyone else. They talk as if it doesn’t matter what the rich did to get the money. Instead, the fact that they are rich is itself immoral. Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute

The Pentagon in Washington, D.C. is seen from aboard Air Force One. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) The Trump administration on Tuesday announced plans to provide an additional $250 million in lethal weapons and aid to the Ukrainian military. With the new aid package, the U.S. military will have given a total of $1.5 billion to Ukraine since

I wrote about the Oberlin verdict today: If there is one thing you learn about at Oberlin College, the notoriously progressive liberal-arts college, it is surely privilege: white privilege, hetero privilege, gender privilege, you name it. Now, an Ohio jury has identified an entirely new variety, woke privilege, and resolved to hold people who believe

FACTORYVILLE, Pa. — Joe Biden has always gotten away with being Joe Biden. This was true when he was President Barack Obama’s vice president, and it was true for his decades in the Senate. “That’s just Joe being Joe,” reporters, politicians and commentators would say with a chuckle whenever Biden said something outrageous or awkward,

In its ruling today in Gamble v. United States, the Supreme Court, by a vote of 7 to 2, affirmed 170 years of precedent applying the dual-sovereignty doctrine to the Fifth Amendment’s Double Jeopardy Clause. As Justice Alito’s majority opinion sums up this doctrine, “a crime under one sovereign’s laws is not ‘the same offence’

When assessing America’s or any of the Western world’s universities — wondering whether you should send your child to one; whether you should pay for a child to attend one; whether you should go into great debt to attend one; whether you should donate money to one; and related questions — it would seem that

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh holds his U.S. Constitution in Washington, D.C., September 6, 2018. (Alex Wroblewski/Reuters) Bruce Ackerman of Yale Law School is one of the leading exponents of “organicism,” a strain of legal scholarship determined to construct a coherent schema around the ad-hoc beliefs of “living constitutionalists.” Ackerman and other organicists attempt to

The Supreme Court (Joshua Roberts / Reuters) The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case involving an Oregon bakery that refused to bake a cake for a lesbian wedding, sending the dispute back to a state court and foregoing an opportunity to clarify its position on the matter after ruling narrowly in

(Unsplash) A new rule allows employers to give workers more insurance choices. Despite all the hoopla about Obamacare and its individual plans, most working-age Americans still get their health insurance through their employers. And as countless health wonks have noted, there are lots of problems with that. Employer offerings are limited and are not portable

Lisa Page and Peter Strzok (Leah Millis, Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Peter Strzok’s and Lisa Page’s texts and testimony, read verbatim, leave the audience howling. What do you get when you take Dean Cain, an actor famous for playing Superman on TV, and Kristy Swanson, the actress who was the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and give