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 … Continue reading Stanford takes satire seriously
Tag: freedom of speech
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 … Continue reading The other side of the coin
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 … Continue reading You want to take a knee? You do it!