New Orleans The United States Constitution is clear. The government can’t punish individuals without judicial determination, or in America’s whacky world, corporations, since the courts have ruled that they are “individuals” for legal purposes. I don’t want to dive down that hole with you this minute, though, but stay with me. Article I, …
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The End of Academic Freedom and Independence
Marble Falls Not having made it through higher education except in starts and stops over a couple of years, I can’t pretend to be an expert in all of the ends and outs of the academy, as understood in the United States. Along with most Americans, though, I do understand the institutional claims …
To Survive in Government, Have a Base
Kolkata Watching the efforts to dismantle the federal government agency by agency is pretty amazing. The fact that some are starting to push back on unilateral orders by co-president Elon Musk, is encouraging, but not yet reassuring. Some are going one way as the Office of Personnel Management makes some orders “voluntary,” rather than …