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Andrew Chamberlain writes: “Todd J. Zywicki of GMU’s School of Law (on leave) announces the launch of a new journal, the Journal of Law, Economics, and Policy. From the email release: “We are pleased to announce that George Mason University School of Law is launching a new law journal, the Journal of Law, Economics, and […]

What on earth is this? President Bush on Wednesday chastised his defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld, for Mr. Rumsfeld’s handling of a scandal over the American abuse of Iraqis held at a notorious prison in Baghdad, White House officials said. The disclosures by the White House officials, under authorization from Mr. Bush, were an extraordinary […]

assuming my correspondent’s account is correct: As I mentioned earlier, I’m quite troubled by the administration’s statement that: [T]he handbook that we will provide to Lecturers when we hire them to teach a course . . . will make our policy on this issue clear. We will not tolerate an instructor’s use of racist, sexist […]

This is the incident that has led the law school administration to promise a new speech code for lecturers. Paul Nunez, a law student, provides a first-hand account: A friend of mine . . . told me that you were looking for someone with a first-hand account of the supposed utterance of a “racist” comment […]

I realize that many Conspiracy blog readers are new, and weren’t around as most of the conspirators joined up. Let me then briefly mention a bit about each of the conspirators (plus those who are off the blog due to government service) and how we came to be blogging together. Here’s the list in rough […]

Jacob is only 21!

I turned 33 yesterday. I’ve been moderately grouchy about it for some time now– grouchy as the birthday approached, grouchy as it actually descended upon me. The first thing to genuinely cheer me up was the realization that, in hobbit years, I have only just now “come of age.” UPDATE: I leave it to the […]

Apropos my question about this a few days ago, reader Jesse Lansner writes: There’s a pretty good explanation on the historical boundaries between Europe, Asia and Africa [here]. The original distinction came from the Greeks, who gave names to the regions base on their direction from Greece (Europe to the north, Asia to the East […]

Still apologists after all those years” — a review essay in Reason discusses and condemns modern historians who are trying to whitewash Communist history. I don’t know the field enough to have a truly informed opinion, but I can say that the essay is eminently readable, and seems thoughtful and incisive.

According to yesterday’s Wall Street Journal (sorry, I don’t have a link that provides free access to this piece), Nine elite universities . . . — Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago — are challenging antiterrorism language that the Ford and Rockefeller […]

During a dispute over Parliament’s authority to legislate over Guernsey and Jersey, it was once asserted that the islands “had as good, if not a better right, originally to legislate for Great Britatin then, than Great Britain had to legislate for them.” (Hansard’sv:629, 1805, cited in Charles Howard McIlwain, The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation, […]

Reader and fellow lawprof James Leonard writes: While you were proceeding to decry free speech violations at GSU (a worthy endeavor), I investigated the more pressing issue of the status of the Channel Islands. It turns out the that the Bailiwick of Guernsery is a remnant of the Duchy of Normandy and consists of Guernsey […]

After unconstitutionally punishing a fraternity for allowing blackface at one of its parties — expressive conduct that is protected by the First Amendment, see Iota Xi v. George Mason Univ. (4th Cir. 1993) — GSU seems to be unconstitutionally punishing the fraternity’s critics: Georgia State University suspended a black student organization Thursday after finding it […]

The official name of Guernsey, in the Channel Islands, is the Bailiwick of Guernsey.

From an opinion piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer, State Rep. Harold James (D., Phila.) does not appear to be the kind of guy who would believe that the world is secretly governed by a conspiracy of Zionist bankers and the Queen of England. But he has chosen to back a crowd that does. And that […]