News

News

To Hate or Not to Hate?

With the Sean Bell and Rodney King scandals elevating public concern about racially-motivated violence, support for federal hate-crimes legislation has intensified. Some scholars worry that such proposals use dangerously vague language.

Read the article
News

Lie Back and Enjoy It

If you think that the globe is not getting warmer, you could be closer to the inconvenient truth than most academic and media elites.

Read the article
News

Conservationists or Environmentalists?

Although the Endangered Species Act of 1973, signed by Republican U.S. President Richard Nixon, was intended to save thousands of plants and animal species, only a handful have been saved, but at an enormous human cost.

Read the article
News

MSA Still At Large

Although they portray themselves as more religious and fraternal than political, the Muslim Students Association is frequently so politicized that in days of yore it might be called subversive.

Read the article
News

How to Commit Marriage

A couple of professors from the University of Chicago think they have found a way out of what they see as a national impasse over state marriage laws.

Read the article