Author Archive | Todd Zywicki

Some interesting chatter over at National Review on Mary Ann Glendon’s decision to rebuff Notre Dame. Danielle Crittenden starts here and elaborates here. Responses by Maggie Gallagher, Kathryn Jean Lopez, and Ramesh Ponnuru. I’ve given my two cents here but to summarize, I think there is a line to draw between giving someone a platform […]

For those interested in the original appointment of Justice Souter to the Court, I recommend (as I have previously) Jan Craford Greenburg’s outstanding book, Supreme Conflict. I blogged on it long ago and identified the Souter nomination as one of the most interesting parts of the book. Here’s what I wrote then: Fourth, her rendition […]

I’ve recently had the opportunity to meet John Allison and hear him speak. Allison was the longtime CEO of BB&T Bank. I believe he has stepped down from that role but remains the Chairman of the Board. I first really became aware of Allison when he announced that BB&T would refuse to lend for projects […]

Steve Jakubowski has a couple of posts on the Chrysler case worth reading, here and here. The second post, on the feasibility of a section 363 sale here, is especially interesting. A quick 363 sale as a going concern seems to be the key to the government’s notion that the case can be essentially processed […]

Bloomberg: The proposed

Yesterday I mentioned Peter Robinson’s letter to The Dartmouth, along with my promise to respond to the challenge of Dartmouth Alumni Association official John Engelman ’68 “to produce a copy of ‘speech code.’” As promised, I penned a response that was scheduled to appear in The Dartmouth newspaper tomorrow. Unfortunately, before it was actually published […]

A thorough and insightful post on the blog of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), “Harvard and Dartmouth Oppose Petition Candidates and Independent Trustees.” Dr. Roy Poses at Health Care Renewal has more here.

Funny line in the Boston Globe’s editorial this weekend, commenting on Harvey Silverglate’s allegations of election shenanigans at Harvard that I mentioned last week: “Perhaps MIT and BU should send election observers to Harvard, just to be sure.” HT: ACTA

My fellow petition trustee Peter Robinson has some extremely kinds words on my service to the Dartmouth Board today in response to the decision by a majority of the Dartmouth Trustees to deny my reelection. Another letter appears, from one John Engelman, Dartmouth Class of ’68, which I will respond to in the pages of […]

John Stossel’s syndicated column out today is a critique of the “Credit Card Holders’ Bill of Rights” that was recently endorsed by President Obama. I’m a real fan of Stossel and I’m honored that his column relies on some of my work on this topic.

Congratulations to the founders of the Federalist Society, who have just been announced as one of this year’s winners of the prestigious (and lucrative) Bradley Prizes. Congratulations to all of the founders who were recognized (Spencer Abraham, Steven G. Calabresi, David McIntosh, and Lee Liberman Otis) as well as to longtime leaders Eugene Meyer and […]

Paul Mirengoff has the story on Mary Ann Glendon’s decision to turn down the prestigious Laetare Medal that she was to receive at Notre Dame’s commencement this year: First, as a longtime consultant to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, I could not help but be dismayed by the news that Notre Dame also planned […]

Harvey Silverglate reports from the front lines.

For my birthday this year my in-laws got me the 4 book series of historical novels by Michael Dobbs about Winston Churchill, set against the backdrop of World War II. I enjoyed them immensely. They are very enjoyable reads while also informative and insightful of Dobbs’s subjective views of the major players of the era. […]

The collapse of newspapers seems to be overdetermined at this point: rise of new media, falling quality, ideological bias (in some instances). But I have a hypothessis that may seem somewhat far-fetched to add to the list: a lifestyle change in America, namely, the decline of eating breakfast at home. This is only a hypothesis, […]