In the matter of Ayaan Hirsi Ali Frederick Lawrence President Brandeis University Dear President Lawrence: I know that many critics have expressed outrage that you rescinded your invitation to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a courageous women’s rights crusader and critic of Islam, to receive an honorary degree at Brandeis University’s graduation this spring.
The advent of wearable tech creates huge new opportunities for liberty advocates to engage in innovative strategies for changing policy. At the same time, the inherently invasive nature of the technology invites a number of serious privacy and legal concerns. Google Glass has particularly stirred up controversy, with several high profile confrontations between users and skeptics making national headlines. How can this exciting technology best be used to advance liberty, without harming individual rights to privacy? Читать дальше...
The United States has announced that it is denying the application for a visa of Iran’s proposed ambassador to the United Nations, Hamid Aboutalebi, because he once worked as a translator for the revolutionaries who took over the U.S. Embassy in Teheran in 1979. Once this information about him became known, his posting to the U.N. was declared “not viable” and his person “toxic” as a result of this past. In view of the gridlock that characterizes Washington, D.C., these days, the outrage in the capital was strikingly bipartisan.
The Sixties didn't begin when we think they did – or so this revisionist cultural history claims
Nonprofit universities make money, but they expense those profits away in various ways that don't help students or taxpayers.
Put a bit of facial hair (or swap hair color) for your protagonist and you get an evil twin. But just because you can doesn't mean you should. The Angry Nerd describes the slippery slope from plot twist to lazy trope.
Put a bit of facial hair (or swap hair color) for your protagonist and you get an evil twin. But just because you can doesn't mean you should. The Angry Nerd describes the slippery slope from plot twist to lazy trope.
Founder of Vente-privee.com Jacques-Antoine Granjon in Paris is confident his site will make its mark in London
Back in the early 1980s, two populations found their lives upended by the AIDS epidemic in America. There were, of course, those infected by the virus, along with everyone who cared for them. And then there were the medical professionals—researchers, doctors—desperately scrambling to figure out where the virus came from and how to interrupt its […]
American higher education is being swept by two potentially irresistible waves of change. The first is intense scrutiny of academia’s costs and benefits, driven by soaring prices, student debt, and the ensuing public anger. The second is the emergence of postsecondary models that threaten to replace traditional colleges and universities on a major scale. In this special forum, we’ll look at the threats to accreditors — and through them, schools — stemming from federal reactions to public unhappiness... Читать дальше...
В Краматорске пророссийски настроенные граждане активно пытались блокировать путь украинской бронетехнике.
The restaurant was previously a kabob shop, which was open a few years with multiple changes in ownership, before Q Samad and his father, Sam, who is also the head chef, took it over and began preparing Sam's recipes. Try the chicken kabobs as part of the combo plate ($13) that also includes ground beef skewers (shami kabobs), rice, salad and naan. The steamed ground beef dumplings are topped with yogurt and a tomatoey vegetable and ground beef sauce, then dusted with dried mint.