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DEI at Law Schools Could Bring Down America

By Tunku Varadarajan and Ilya Shipiro - March 28, 2023

Principles of Government · September 27, 2023 ·

By Tunku Varadarajan and Ilya Shipiro – … The threat to ‘dismantle existing structures’ is an idle one in English class. But in legal education it targets individual rights and equal treatment under the Constitution.… If you read critical legal studies, of which critical race theory is a subset, you’ll read about the need to ‘fundamentally dismantle existing structures,’ to ‘change the way social hierarchies operate.’ . . . The goal is to fundamentally change the way that American society operates”…. Read More

Emission Cuts Will Fail to Stop Climate Change. What to Do Then? B

By Tunku Varadarajan , Nathan Myhrvold - Feb. 17, 2023

Principles of Government · August 16, 2023 ·

By Tunku Varadarajan , Nathan Myhrvold – …“There are activists who oppose funding or experiments. There’s no evidence I can see that many of the people involved in the climate debate want a solution.”…Geoengineering would appear to be the application of science par excellence. …“Opponents worry that once you have geoengineering, people won’t make sacrifices to cut emissions. They want a sword of Damocles hanging over humanity as a means to force us to follow their ideology.”…. In climate change, he says, this moralistic attitude takes the following form: “I don’t like aspects of our society, I don’t like technology, I don’t like capitalism, and this is nature’s retribution. And so we have to change the way we live.” Such beliefs “have become a very powerful disincentive, particularly for academic researchers.” …He calls it “insane” not to fund such research … Read More

DEI Spells Death for the Idea of a University AA

By Matthew Spalding - Feb. 10, 2023

Principles of Government · September 11, 2025 ·

By Matthew Spalding – Wherever this agenda is allowed to take root, free expression and academic integrity are doomed…The first object of government, Madison tells us,…is the protection of diversity in … different opinions, to be encouraged to preserve liberty. Equity is an ancient legal concept of justice …, developed over centuries of English common-law practice. …. Yet in true Orwellian fashion, they have been redefined.…Diversity is no longer a term to describe the breadth of our differences but a demand to grant privileges to purportedly oppressed identity groups. Equity assigns desirable positions based on race, sex and sexual orientation rather than character, competence and merit. Read More

Congress Once Constrained Government Debt AA

By John F. Cogan - Jan. 23, 2023

Principles of Government · September 10, 2025 ·

By Judy Shelton – Entitlement programs have accounted for all the growth in federal spending relative to gross domestic product in the past 60 years, causing the persistent budget deficits during that period. Entitlement expenditures are determined differently from so-called discretionary programs. Spending on the latter programs is set by fixed appropriations of money. Entitlement expenditures aren’t fixed in advance but determined by the program’s level of benefits, its eligibility rules and economic factors. Jurisdiction for entitlement legislation is dispersed among more than a dozen committees in each congressional chamber….In this system, no committee is accountable for total spending. Each committee has a reason to expand its programs and resist attempts to restrain them, but none have an incentive to keep overall spending down. It’s analogous to the classic tragedy of the commons. Read More

DEI at Law Schools Could Bring Down America

Emission Cuts Will Fail to Stop Climate Change. What to Do Then? B

DEI Spells Death for the Idea of a University AA

Congress Once Constrained Government Debt AA

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