The New England Journal of Medicine recently published an advocacy article that attacks academic freedom and urges stifling contentious campus debates. Specifically, Evan Mullen, Eric J. Topol, and Abraham Verghese urge universities to “speak out publicly” and issue official institutional opinions about public controversies involving its professors “when it concludes that a faculty member’s opinion could cause… Continue reading Universities Should Promote Rigorous Discourse, Not Stifle It
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How the Federal Government Loses More Money Than Its Bean-Counters Can Count
Not long after Jeremy Gober started running a sleep center, he quit treating patients for narcolepsy and sleep apnea and went full-time submitting bogus insurance claims. According to Gober’s 2022 indictment, he committed at least one especially sloppy error: One of his make-believe billings included a Medicare claim for treatment in March 2018 for a… Continue reading How the Federal Government Loses More Money Than Its Bean-Counters Can Count
America’s Suez Moment | RealClearWorld
History, as the familiar saying goes, does not repeat, but often rhymes. Do the crises in Gaza and Ukraine impose a “Suez Moment” on the United States – the events of 2022-24, a refrain to 1956-57? October 1956 featured two major international crises. In that month, Israel launched an assault on Egypt to reopen the… Continue reading America’s Suez Moment | RealClearWorld
The Politics of Life | RealClearBooks
The following excerpt is adapted from The Politics of Life: My Road to the Middle of a Hostile and Adversarial World (Regan Arts.) by Douglas E. Schoen Penn, Schoen & Berland had been a successful consulting firm for almost 20 years, but we were still waiting for the ultimate invitation – to work on a… Continue reading The Politics of Life | RealClearBooks
Greenwashing Kamala Harris: How the Veep Casts Herself as an Environmental Justice Crusader
SAN FRANCISCO—Vice President Kamala Harris has long cast herself as a fearless pioneer of efforts to fight for social and environmental justice. “When I was elected DA of San Francisco,” Harris told a gathering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta last year, “I started the first environmental justice unit of any DA’s office… Continue reading Greenwashing Kamala Harris: How the Veep Casts Herself as an Environmental Justice Crusader
The Honest Truth About Health Policy
As a frail President Biden walks onto the debate stage this week with the considerable challenge of defending a disastrous record on foreign policy, inflation, and border policies, he is certain to try to use healthcare as an area to score points against President Trump. The campaign is already airing ads on the subject. The… Continue reading The Honest Truth About Health Policy
Will a Crime Wave in this PA City Shape the Election Outcome?
Scranton, the Electric City and boyhood home of President Joe Biden, will likely figure in the political headlines throughout the 2024 election season. That’s largely because it’s located in Northeastern Pennsylvania – one of the swingiest areas of arguably the most important swing state. The city received visits from both major party candidates during the… Continue reading Will a Crime Wave in this PA City Shape the Election Outcome?
War College: How a Berkeley Professor Inspired and Engineered Anti-Israel Protests
By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigationsJune 19, 2024 Echoing the Muslim prophet Muhammad, Professor Hatem Bazian, a University of California, Berkeley lecturer, told his fellow Muslims: “The Day of Judgment will never happen until you fight the Jews.” At the Santa Clara conference sponsored by the American Muslim Alliance, Bazian exhorted the crowd: “They are on the west side of… Continue reading War College: How a Berkeley Professor Inspired and Engineered Anti-Israel Protests
Searching for the Truth About the Raid at Mar-a-Lago
By Julie Kelly, RealClearInvestigationsJune 13, 2024 Top officials at the Department of Justice are downplaying recently disclosed documents showing FBI agents were authorized to use deadly force during their 2022 raid of Donald Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago. Responding to Trump’s claim that “Joe Biden was locked & loaded ready to take me out & put… Continue reading Searching for the Truth About the Raid at Mar-a-Lago
‘No Excuses’: Can a Return to Traditional Discipline Save Public Schools?
By Vince Bielski, RealClearInvestigationsJune 10, 2024 COLUMBUS, Ohio—On a bright morning in May at the Columbus Collegiate Academy Main, orderliness is on display. Students in khakis and blue tops carrying bulging backpacks walk briskly in line through the front doors of the single-story brick building – looking like young people who really want to be… Continue reading ‘No Excuses’: Can a Return to Traditional Discipline Save Public Schools?