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More on the Jewish Question at Harvard
Professor Ben Eidelson of Harvard Law School has posted a defense of President Claudine Gay’s testimony before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce that implies that she was wrong to apologize. “She did nothing wrong,” he writes, and “the real failure of leadership would be surrendering to a campaign so hostile to our……
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Elephant Habeas: The NhRP’s Colorado Case Is Dismissed
A Colorado judge has dismissed a habeas corpus petition brought by the Nonhuman Rights Project supposedly on behalf of elephants at the Cheyenne Zoo. The decision is a good one. The judge basically agrees with all the things that the NhRP has to say about elephants. They are really smart, they have complex social lives,……
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The Jewish Question at Harvard
I cannot believe what I heard from the leaders of some of our great universities at yesterday’s hearing on campus antisemitism in the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. The question was maybe the easiest question ever put to a witness at a congressional hearing: Does calling for the genocide of the Jewish people……
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Case of the Day: Doe v. Germany
The case of the day is Doe v. Federal Republic of Germany (S.D.N.Y. 2023). It’s a weird one. A pseudonymous plaintiff, who claimed he was the person who leaked the Panama Papers, sued the German government for breach of contract, alleging that the government had breached a promise to pay him a portion of the……
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In Memoriam Sandra Day O’Connor
Letters Blogatory remembers Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman appointed to the US Supreme Court. She will be remembered for her opinions in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Grutter v. Bollinger, and other important constitutional decisions. Some of these, including the two decisions I mentioned, have not stood the test of time, at least as things……