FREE SPEECH IS A BALANCING ACT: Professors Jacobson & Nelson debate political correctness
We lose a lot when we assume everyone is acting with ill intent. And indeed, shutting down those who act in bad faith is often the very action they desire.
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Op-Ed: Trumpism Can Make America Great Again
Michael Johns gave the following speech, “Trumpism Can Make America Great Again,” at the Cornell Political Union on…
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Cornell Students Debate: Is Football Coach’s “Big Sombrero” Tweet Cultural Appropriation?
Keeping up with the political left is becoming exhausting these days. On the one hand, Hillary Clinton recently…
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Student Assembly Calls for Renaming Columbus Day as ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day’
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Major Controversy: Cornell Law Students Receive ‘Offensive’ Email Image
The Cornell Sun reported that an email sent to the Cornell Law School student listserv on Monday by…
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Cornell Arts and Sciences Job Posting: As Long As You’re ‘Underrepresented’ We Want You
You can’t make this stuff up. A recent job posting by Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences indicates…
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NY Times Wants to Reengineer College Lectures Because They’re Racist
This past week, the New York Slimes published an op-ed by Annie Murphy Paul about the inherently discriminatory…
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Cornell Sun Column: ‘Why Political Correctness Matters’
“It is no longer cool to be politically correct in America.” So begins an exceptionally banal defense of…
