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Law reviews at three T-14 law schools, Columbia (#8), Northwestern (#10), and Stanford (#1), are engaging in underhanded discrimination against conservative students. And at the University of Chicago Law School (#3), journal acceptances have been unexpectedly delayed for reasons that are not yet clear. See also Jonathan Turley's column about this Chicago Thinker piece.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Pritzger School of Law at Northwestern University. Now that says a lot about what’s going on.
Another institution captured by ideologues as law reviews go down the toilet. The only solution, and it’s a harsh one, is to make it socially unacceptable to be a progressive. They need to be ostracized from society, shamed, financially ruined and all of their personal relationships and networks destroyed. So much so that progressives will lie in ruins, much like the pro-slavery Democrats of the 1860’s faced, or the Pro-segregation Democrats of the 1960’s faced. The 2020 progressive need to have their life on earth be a complete living hell before any of this will change. And we start with… Read more »
The Judges boycotting the Reviews seems the way to go. Harsh retribution works and is warranted.
Decades ago, Ralph Nader said “Nothing wastes more time of more people than law reviews.” Using that quote during my interview to be on the editorial board of my law review didn’t exactly improve my chances.