Wall Street Journal, Letter, April 15, 2016 Ed. Note: This published letter was in response to a Wall Street Journal editorial (“Punished for Blogging at Marquette,” Review & Outlook, April 2, 2016) about a tenured professor at Marquette who was suspended without pay and faces dismissal for blogging that a colleague was “using a tactic typical…
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Why on earth Donald Trump?
Cape Cod Times column, January 22, 2016 By Brian R. Merrick In any normal campaign season the lead story might have been a former Secretary of State, U.S. Senator and First Lady poised to become the first woman presidential nominee of a major party. It could have been a successful former governor of a major…
Diversity in the Boardroom
Boston Globe letter, December 24, 2015 “Diversity in the board room” (Editorial, Dec. 22) seems a good thing, but State Treasurer Deborah Goldberg should not be using “the Commonwealth’s $61 billion pension fund to make a stand on corporate diversity. She has a fiduciary duty to protect the value and security of the pension fund…
Yale’s Little Robespierres
WSJ Letters, November 16, 2015 “Yale’s Little Robespierres” (Review & Outlook, Nov. 10) makes the Yale of William F. Buckley’s “God and Man at Yale” seem an academic paradise. Buckley bemoaned the academic freedom he saw undermining Yale’s traditional religious values. True academic freedom, like Western liberal democracy, in its tolerance of values inimical to…
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