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October 6, 2008 — Paul Mirengoff

Business as usual on campus

From Nat Hentoff, via the Weekly Standard’s scrapbook, comes the latest evidence of the demise of free expression (not to mention sanity) on college campuses: At Brandeis University. . .professor Donald Hindley, on the faculty for 48 years, teaches a course on Latin American politics. Last fall, he described how Mexican migrants to the United States used to be discriminatorily called “wetbacks.” An anonymous student complained to the administration accusing »
March 6, 2008 — Scott Johnson

Doing that wudu at Harvard

As of January 28, according to Abbie Ruzicka’s Boston University Daily Free Press report, Harvard has imposed women-only swimming hours at its Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center. Harvard adopted the women-only hours after members of the Harvard Islamic Society and the Harvard Women’s Center petitioned the university for a more comfortable environment for women. Ruzicka’s account makes clear the Muslim impetus of the policy: Harvard Islamic Society’s Islamic Knowledge Committee officer »
April 16, 2007 — Scott Johnson

Pushback at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport

The powers-that-be at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport — the Metropolitan Airports Commission — have voted unanimously to require airoprt taxis to serve all comers, regardless of their compliance with sharia law: “Taxi drivers can’t refuse riders, MAC rules.” The Star Tribune reports: Starting May 11, airport taxi drivers who refuse to transport riders carrying alcohol will be suspended for 30 days. And after a second offense, their license would »
October 26, 2006 — Scott Johnson

A fatwa made in Minnesota

In “Taxi” I wrote about the Muslim taxi drivers at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport who refuse to transport passengers visibly carrying liquor. Daniel Pipes devoted a column to the subject and followed it with notes updating his column. Star Tribune columnist Katherine Kersten explored the concerns that led to the rejection of the tentative “two-light” solution formulated by the Metropolitan Airports Commission. When Katherine Kersten wrote her column on »
October 16, 2006 — Scott Johnson

Taxi, take 2

In “Taxi” I wrote about the Muslim taxi drivers at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport who refuse to transport passengers visibly carrying liquor. Daniel Pipes devoted a column to the subject and followed it with notes updating his column. Today Star Tribune columnist Katherine Kersten explores the concerns that led to the rejection of the tentative “two-light” solution formulated by the Metropolitan Airports Commission. Kathy invites readers to contribute their »
July 13, 2006 — Scott Johnson

Joel Mowbray reports from Israel, part 4

Joel Mowbray (email: [email protected]) filed his most recent dispatch from Israel within the hour: JERUSALEM–With Israel flexing its military might simultaneously in Gaza and Lebanon, it might have seemed like a safe bet that the Islamic terrorists would be in retreat and scrambling to find some kind of face-saving exit. The keytusha rockets Hezbollah fired into the northern coastal town of Haifa says otherwise. Toward the end of a closed-door »
May 19, 2006 — Paul Mirengoff

Brandeis loses the plot

Brandeis University was founded as a Jewish University in 1948, the same year as the state of Israel. The impulse behind both “foundings” was similar, and the man for whom the university is named, Justice Brandeis, was a strong Zionist. Today, though, Brandeis seems to be going off its rails. When we visited the university last summer, I must have heard the term “social justice” thrown around perhaps half a »
April 20, 2006 — Scott Johnson

Don’t steal this newspaper

Steal This Book is the radical how-to manifesto of 1970 by the late Abbie Hoffman. The book was in part an unsavory guide to freeloading in a wealthy country that subsidizes its “rebels,” but it occasionally displayed a sense of humor. Take, for example, Hoffman’s admonition: “It’s so easy to get on welfare that anyone who is broke and doesn’t have a regular relief check coming in is nothing but »
October 20, 2004 — Paul Mirengoff

Industry stars compare notes

The late Abbie Hoffman had a routine he would use when asked by, say David Susskind, about Yippies. Hoffman would offer to show how a Yippie stands up or scratches his head, and then perform the act. I think about Hoffman’s shtick whenever I hear someone, say Tom Brokaw, ask how bloggers viewed a debate or what they think about the election. Last night, I had the opportunity to attend »
May 26, 2004 — Scott Johnson

The book on Edgar

The radical author E.L. Doctorow rose to prominence in 1971 with The Book of Daniel, his fictional retelling of the Rosenberg spy story from the vantage of one of the Rosenberg’s children. This week Doctorow has been back in the news as a result of his poorly received attack on President Bush in the commencement address he gave Sunday at Hofstra University. Peggy Noonan did justice to Doctorow’s offense against »