Hoover and Rumsfeld
According to a New York Times story, the recent Hoover Institute appointment of Donald Rumsfeld has brought a petition: We, the undersigned members of the Stanford community, strongly object to the appointment of Donald Rumsfeld as a “distinguished visiting fellow” at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. We view the appointment as fundamentally incompatible with the ethical values […]
Icons and beacons
Eric Rauchway has the best short commentary on two recent University of California idiocies: In the Chemerinsky case, UC threatened Chemerinsky’s academic freedom; in the Summers case, UC threatened mine–and that of everyone else who teaches here. Nice bon mot, but I wish Rauchway had explained it more clearly: UCI Chancellor Michael Drake was violating Chemerinsky’s […]