 Views & Opinions |
Views & Opinions |
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The right to remain silent |
It took years, but "colleges and universities are getting out of the business of making political statements," writes opinion contributor Steven McGuire. |
Lisa Poole, Associated Press file |
"After years of pronouncing on social and political events, from the murder of George Floyd to the Supreme Court's decision on abortion, campus leaders suddenly found themselves tongue-tied in the wake of Hamas's terror attack on Israel." The public's response was fierce. Alumni and donors revolted, and lawmakers launched investigations. Americans were shocked by the hypocrisy. McGuire asks, "How could university presidents condemn the criminal invasion of Ukraine but not the horrific massacre committed by Hamas of Oct. 7?" Now schools have started refraining from taking official stances on controversial matters. McGuire agrees with universities' newfound respect for institutional neutrality. He says it "will help to solve the reputational crisis facing higher education." But universities must not stop at institutional neutrality, he writes. They must foster viewpoint diversity across their campuses. "Otherwise, skeptical Americans will be justified in seeing neutrality as a face-saving measure to mask their ongoing ideological activities." Read the op-ed at TheHill.com. |
Welcome to The Hill's Views & Opinions newsletter, it's Tuesday, Sept. 17. I'm Daniel Allott, bringing together a collection of key opinion pieces published from a wide range of voices. |
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Op-eds exploring key issues affecting the U.S. and world: |
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By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., environmental lawyer and former presidential candidate |
At a time when American leadership should be focused on finding a diplomatic off-ramp to a war that should never have been allowed to take place, the Biden-Harris administration is instead pursuing a policy that Russia says it will interpret as an act of war. |
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By Jonathan Turley, Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University |
The issue is not fact-checking, but the failure to do so equally and accurately. ABC disseminated false information under the mantle of fact-checking, and that's a real problem. |
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By Steven Lubet, Williams Memorial Professor Emeritus at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law |
When the Supreme Court issued its code of conduct, just a few months after the Associated Press expose, it included an entirely novel provision in Canon 4A, that is found in no other court's code. The "Sotomayor Rule," as it might be called, states that "a justice may attend and speak at an event where the justice's books are available for purchase." |
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By Bill Press, author of "From the Left: A Life in the Crossfire." |
Pope Francis is wrong. Yes, the choice between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is clear. But it's not a choice between the "lesser of two evils." It's a choice between good and evil. |
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