Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Talk
Last Tuesday, Professor William Jacobson (’81) of Cornell Law School gave a lecture on the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel and academic freedom.
Read MoreJeb’s Tax Plan: Good for America?
After the global financial crisis, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The stimulus package was supposed to “jumpstart” the recovery and bring the American economy back to prosperity.
Read MoreEurope’s Refugee Dilemma
The plight of Syrian refugees evokes sympathy from Western onlookers, but the refugee crisis is less about the refugees’ crisis, and more about the dilemma Europe faces in dealing with them. It would have been politically (or ethically, based on your disposition) infeasible to keep the hundreds of thousands of beleaguered migrants stopped indefinitely at the Hungarian border. It was up to Germany, as the destination of most of the refugees, to decide how to resolve the issue.
Read MoreThe ISIS Sex Slave Market
For the Yazidi people of Iraq, Thursday marked a particularly horrifying day. On October 8th, ISIS fighters participated in the female sex slave market, where Yazidi girls were the prize item.
Read MoreThe Winkelvosses’ Bitcoin Scheme
In one memorable scene of The Social Network, Mark Zuckerberg and then-co-worker Sean Parker discuss the low moments in their lives that motivated them to succeed in the tech world. Today, Cameron and Tyler Winkelvoss, who experienced a low moment of their own when Zuckerberg’s Facebook outdid their efforts to create an online social network, are laying claim to a comeback tale of their own in the form of bitcoin, a controversial digital currency.
Read MoreThe Shadow Economy of Compliance
I have a big backlog of emails from the college saying things like “change your email password,” and “take this sexual assault training course,” and “you have five days to find that anteater a new home, because it can’t live in your dorm room.”
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