‘Dean Chemerinsky’s email is wrong, and we will be addressing the issue with the university,’ Brandeis Center lawyer Paul Eckles says L: Erwin Chemerinsky (law.berkeley.edu) R: A demonstration at the University of California, Berkeley (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) A Jewish legal advocacy group is accusing the University of California, Berkeley’s law school dean of violating the
The Ivy League school has said it will blacklist student groups for affiliating with CUAD and claimed no recognized groups were doing so Columbia University protest (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Columbia-Barnard Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA), a recognized student group, says it is working “to plan actions and liaise with Columbia University Apartheid Divest [CUAD],”
An exhibit on loan from the Jewish Museum in Milwaukee is now at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., where it is getting new and important attention. “Blacklisted: An American Story” tells viewers it “explores the Hollywood blacklist and the federal government’s loyalty investigations. … Through powerful personal stories, rare artifacts, and film clips,
Antonin Scalia’s jurisprudential legacy has flourished far beyond what anyone might have reasonably imagined at the time of his death 10 years ago. By keeping his Supreme Court seat open through the 2016 presidential election, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell gave lots of conservatives who were leery of Donald Trump one strong reason to vote
Every society has an aristocracy, even those that deny or disparage the very idea, such as our own. The word derives from a Greek term roughly meaning “rule of the best” which, it goes without saying, means different things to different people. In England this was usually defined as the families that accumulated vast swaths
Dr. Paul Ralph Ehrlich (1932-2026), who passed away last week at the age of 93, was perhaps the world’s most famous opinionator on the population question since Reverend T.R. Malthus himself. An unabashed apostle of population control and prophet of impending worldwide demographic catastrophe, he preached a secular gospel of “overpopulation” and eco-apocalypse from his
The world’s attention is fixed on the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s determination to cripple the global economy, and Donald Trump’s attempts to break the energy blockade. But, as Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi’s White House visit this week demonstrates, the wheel of history continues its relentless turn in other strategically vital parts of the world