Tag: Politics/International Relations
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Opinion | The 2020 Election All Over Again
[ad_1] One tragedy of a 2024 rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump is that it would all be about the past—specifically, the last election. Who wants to relive that nightmare? Friday was a good illustration of what Americans can expect for the next 10 months if these two are the presidential nominees, as their…
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Opinion | The Supreme Court to the Ballot Rescue
[ad_1] The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear Donald Trump’s appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to ban him from the state’s presidential primary ballot, and just in time too. The political malpractice of using Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to ban opposition candidates is spreading. In Pennsylvania, progressive activist Gene Stilp is…
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Opinion | A Modified, Limited Good Jobs Report
[ad_1] Updated Jan. 5, 2024 7:03 pm ET It’s an election year, so every economic report is going to be filtered through the lens of political benefit. President Biden thus celebrated Friday’s Labor Department report that employers added a solid 216,000 jobs in December, but below the top line there are signs of a softening…
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Opinion | The Supreme Court’s Road to El Dorado
[ad_1] The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear what could be a landmark property-rights case (Sheetz v. County of El Dorado) with major economic implications. The question is simple: Can governments use building permits to extort property owners? George Sheetz in 2016 applied for a permit from El Dorado County to build a small home…
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Opinion | Alan Sokal’s Joke Is on Us as Postmodernism Comes to Science
[ad_1] When I taught physics at Yale in the 1980s and ’90s, my colleagues and I took pride in our position on “science hill,” looking down on the humanities scholars in the intellectual valleys below as they were inundated in postmodernism and deconstructionism. This same attitude motivated the mathematician Alan Sokal to publish his famous…
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Opinion | Looking Beyond Harvard and the Border
[ad_1] Most immigrants, like most of our colleges and universities, are still a net plus for American life. [ad_2] Source link
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Opinion | Iran, the Fulcrum of Mideast Violence
[ad_1] Disparate acts of war and terrorism all lead back to Tehran. [ad_2] Source link
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Opinion | Your Government at Work: FAFSA Financial Aid Version
[ad_1] Remember the political uproar after a ticket-buying surge from Taylor Swift fans caused Ticketmaster’s website to crash? By contrast, consider the muted reaction to the Education Department’s rocky rollout this weekend of the revised Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Even by government standards, the new FAFSA launch has been a fiasco. According…