Stanford takes satire seriously

Slate reports that a Stanford law student likely will not be able to graduate in a few days because...of satire. “It has been a pretty awful way to close out my career at Stanford,” Wallace told me. “Instead of studying for finals, I’m trying to figure this out. I just sent an email to my …

Should Facebook have banned Trump?

The latest edition of the morettiphd podcast has the answer.

The other side of the coin

Rarely does a week go by that I don't read a story about someone who has savagely criticized another person, or a group, on social media and then is shocked (SHOCKED, I TELL YOU!) that countless numbers of people don't rally around him or her in that moment of great emotional need. The narrative almost …

You want to take a knee? You do it!

You want to take a knee when the national anthem plays? You do it. Your symbolic action is working. And it needs to be followed by much more meaningful action. I could make a dry, legal argument (no offense to lawyers) that kneeling is constitutional. But that misses the point. The more important reason why …