Shikha Dalmia explains how immigration crackdowns in American screw-up the lives of many Americans.
This magnification of danger and hurt is prevalent on campus today. It no longer matters what a person intended to say, or how a reasonable listener would interpret a statement—what matters is whether any individual feels offended by it. If so, the speaker has committed a “microaggression,” and the offended party’s purely subjective reaction is a sufficient basis for emailing a dean or filing a complaint with the university’s “bias response team.” The net effect is that both professors and students today report that they are walking on eggshells. This interferes with the process of free inquiry and open debate—the active ingredients in a college education.
Also from Jonathan Haidt is this defense of Amy Wax’s defense of bourgeois values. (Here’s the original op-ed by Amy Wax and Larry Alexander.)
Kate Andrews busts some myths about the alleged gender-pay gap in the United Kingdom.
George Will isn’t fond of the G.O.P.’s plan to tax the earnings on some collegiate endowments.
A recent statistical analysis from the Cato Institute showed that in 44 out of 50 states, the more land-use regulations on the books, the more homes cost.
Reducing land use regulations is the right move for getting Americans out of poverty and into work.
My great colleague Walter Williams distinguishes ignorance from stupidity.
