The Coddling of the American Mind: How Overprotective Parenting Led to Fragility on Campus
Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff explain how "good intentions and bad ideas" have made young people super-fragile-and how to make things better.
Education
New Study Finds Zero Evidence That Hiring a Chief Diversity Officer Produces More Diversity on Campus
"We are unable to find significant statistical evidence that preexisting growth in diversity... is affected by hiring an executive level diversity officer."
Don't Homeschool Your Kids, Unschool Them
Homeschoolers are increasingly ridding themselves not just of schools but of traditional notions about schooling.
End of History Author Francis Fukuyama Thinks Leftist Identity Politics Helped Create Trump
Plus: Why Jordan Peterson may be right about postmodern neo-Marxism.
Arizona Supreme Court Blocks Proposed Tax Hike, Saying It's Too Confusing
The ballot initiative, which would have raised money for education by hiking taxes on the wealthy, "creates a significant danger of confusion or unfairness."
The Importance of Uncomfortable Conversations
Uncensored author and new college grad Zachary R. Wood explains why his generation is so scared of viewpoint diversity.
A Black Male Student Says a White Woman Bit, Choked, and Pinned Him While They Were Kissing. Guess Who Got Suspended?
A judge sides with a Brown University student who says the Title IX process was unfair and discriminatory.
Federal Survey Wildly Overestimates Number of School Shootings
The Department of Education's data on school shootings is riddled with inaccuracies.
Georgia Tech Rejects a Qualified Job Applicant Over His Teenage Criminal Record
Benjamin Paul is a single father, a college graduate, an ordained minister, and a career adviser. And he's an ex-con.
The Case for a Consistent Approach to Government Discrimination on the Basis of Religion
Both right and left decry implicit government discrimination on the basis of religion when it targets groups they sympathize with. But both are all too ready to turn a blind eye in other cases.
High Schooler Faces Prison, Expulsion for Shooting Fake Zombies
Play an augmented-reality zombie shooter in a school halllway, go to jail.
Rutgers Can Criticize a White Professor for Anti-White Racism, But Punishing Him Would Violate Free Speech
"Okay, officially, I now hate white people" is a gross statement that deserves First Amendment protection.
Advice to Entering Law Students
Some ideas that might help you make better use of the opportunities available to you.
The Most Cited Legal Academics 2013-17 (Updated)
A new report on the academic influence of law faculties and tallies of legal citations by specialty.
Decades after Brown v. Board of Education, Choice Finally Integrated Schools in Alabama's Poorest County
Opponents of charter schools often claim that school choice will segregate K-12 education. Sumter County, Alabama proves them wrong.
What if the Volokh Conspiracy Bloggers Were a Law School Faculty? [Updated with a methodological correction]
The Volokh Law School "faculty" would outscore all but one other law school in the most recent Leiter ranking of law schools by scholarly impact.
Feminists Rally to Defense of Female Professor Accused of Sexual Harassment by Male Student
#MeToo madness: it's wrong to use Title IX, a feminist tool, "to take down a feminist."
Mandatory 'In God We Trust' Signs Greet Florida Students at Start of School Year
Thanks to legislation that passed in March, all Florida public schools must display "In God We Trust" signage in "a conspicuous place."
Body Camera Shows School Resource Officer Handcuffing an Autistic 10-Year-Old
Officer Eric Coulston repeatedly pinned Thomas to the ground and handcuffed him after he tried to hide in a cubby hole.
Chapman U. President Doesn't Want His Campus 'UnKoched': Podcast
Daniele Struppa says progressives who would deny money simply because of who gives it pose "a grave threat to academic freedom."
Back To School Choice
These days, kids are heading back to increasingly varied learning experiences that might or might not include anything recognizable as a traditional school.
Some Single-Sex Organizations at Harvard Go Quietly While Others Vow to Fight
Harvard's Delta Gamma sorority announced that that they are disbanding due to university rules banning single-sex student organizations.
Parkland Shooter Nikolas Cruz Needed Help. Bureaucratic Errors Deprived Him of It.
School officials failed to grant him special assistance to which he was entitled under district policy.
New Study: Trigger Warnings Might Make People Less Resilient to Trauma
"Trigger warnings may inadvertently undermine some aspects of emotional resilience."
Triggered by Trigger Warnings
A new study suggests that trigger warnings may actually increase student vulnerability to offensive or troubling material.
Appeals Court Orders Broward County Sheriff to Release School Shooting Footage
Many believe the footage will show what sheriffs were doing outside during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre.
Mitch Daniels Is the President America Should've Had
He's the president we needed, but maybe not the one we deserved.
More and More of What We Do Depends on Government Permission
The granting or withholding of that approval is a powerful lever over our lives.
Florida Officials and Media Fight Over Parkland Shooting Footage
The media sues for video that may show what Broward County Sheriff's deputies were doing during the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules for Conservative Professor Who Wrote Controversial Blog Post
Marquette is ordered to reinstate John McAdams.
School Strip-Searches 22 Sixth-Grade Girls Because a Cop Thought They Were Hiding $50 in Their Underwear
Despite the best efforts of a nurse who "loosened their bras" and "checked around the waistband of their panties," no money was found.
Heterodox Academy Fights For Intellectual Freedom and Diversity Among Professors: Podcast
Deb Mashek explains why intellectual diversity can't be optional if we're serious about higher education.
Judge to Detroit Students: We Can't Force Schools to Actually Teach You Anything
Reading is fundamental, but it's not a fundamental right.
School Security Guard Who Didn't Stop the Parkland Shooter Was Suspended for Sexually Harassing Students
A disciplinary panel recommended Andrew Medina be fired. He was not.
Will the ACLU Defend Controversial Speech? Ira Glasser, Wendy Kaminer, Nadine Strossen React to the Memo
President David Cole says guidelines "are explicitly designed to help affiliates and national staff think through various factors in case selection decisions."
13-Year-Old Charged with Felony for Recording Conversation with School Principal
"If I do go to court and get wrongfully convicted, my whole life is ruined."
Leaked Internal Memo Reveals the ACLU Is Wavering on Free Speech
"Our defense of speech may have a greater or lesser harmful impact on the equality and justice work to which we are also committed."
Stossel: Jordan Peterson vs. 'Social Justice Warriors'
Peterson: "SJWs" evolved from Marxism.
