Gjester P2s Kompass-serie om USA. Jeg og Hans Olav Lahlum diskuterer religion og politikk. radio.nrk.no/podkast/komp...
"Still spørsmål ved alt, også Guds eksistens!" Dette var grunnholdninga til USA sin tredje president, Thomas Jefferson. Og trusfridom var ein av hans store kjepphestar. Med Hilde Eliassen Restad og Ha...
We need to talk about right-wing students harassing professors
“I wasn’t fired for anything I said in the classroom. I was fired because of a charge brought by a student I had never met, let alone taught, who had been surveying my social media account for months.”
Pennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College may have become the first institution since Oct. 7 to oust a tenured faculty member for such statements, though the professor is appealing the decision and still rece...
Republicans who stand up to Trump are regularly terrorized by their fellow partisans. It’s a commonly known consequence, but we don’t hear much about it.
My new one @Slate on North Carolina, Georgia, and Nebraska: "A Last-Minute Effort to Mess With the 2024 Vote Is Underway. It’s Scarier Than Expected." slate.com/news-and-pol...
Violence targeting candidates is surging and may extend to election workers and others as Election Day approaches, writes @jacobware.bsky.social in this week’s Foreign Policy Essay.
The two attempted assassinations targeting Trump are part of a much broader trend targeting candidates for office.
Which contributed to both the October 23, 1983 bombing of US & French forces in Beirut and the creation of Hezbollah.
Speaking of campus arcana as the medium through which we grapple with big issues - MSU changed the way an art exhibition was presented and it seems treated some members of the community as second class because other members of the community objected to an art work.
In a series of secretive decisions, MSU canceled an art opening and added a disclaimer to the exhibition. The university later admitted it had acted in response to a complaint over a piece depicting a...
When you are censoring, you are losing. What a cowardly response.
If a leftist had attacked a cop in a riot and only gotten weekend detention, can you imagine the level of frothing indignation we would have been hearing from the media every day for the past three years?
