Joseph Morris

In my opinion, Terry Teachout of The Wall Street Journal is the best theater critic in the business today.

The United States Supreme Court this week decided a case that resulted in a unanimous agreement on an outcome but that exposed a vast gulf in philosophies.

The Supreme Court of Illinois yesterday affirmed lower court holdings that eviction of the Chicago “occupy” movement from public parks did not violate Federal or State constitutional protections of peaceful assembly.

Justice Gorsuch’s opinion is concise and eminently readable.  Non-lawyer consumers, lawyers, and even Federal judges will understand it.

The wise and prudent thing to do would be to err on the side of the protection of the non-governmental and the maintenance of what a sage in our sister Commonwealth of Virginia once described as a “wall of separation” — in this instance between the “public” and the “private”.

The need for America to have powerful tools of public diplomacy – of which the Voice of America ought to be a centerpiece – has never been greater.

Erasmus was a careful student of text, and would have found modern American legal originalists as companions in arms. He was a lover of learning in all its fields, and mastered many modern and ancient languages, working hard over his lifetime to make vital texts available to modern minds.

Heterodox Academy is an association of university professors who are committed to the freedoms of speech and of expression in society and in the academy, and are resisting the censorship, “safe-space”, and “trigger-warning” madness that currently afflicts so many campuses.