Terry Hastings points me to this very interesting Volokh thread addressing KC Johnson’s Inside Hire Ed article on ideological diversity within the academy—an article that itself takes on a U of Pittsburgh critique of the latest in a string of surveys showing ideological one-sidedness (overwhelmingly favoring the left) in American universities. Writes Johnson: Inside Higher Ed recently reported on four University of Pittsburgh professors critiquing the latest survey suggesting ideological

In her latest Weekly Standard piece, “Speak of the Dead,” Noemie Emery notes that the political theater of grief-mongering is becoming standard fare for the left: Political cut and thrust does not go well with the etiquette of bereavement, which tends to short-circuit all argument, which of course is the point. It inhibits argument, makes response awkward, and sometimes can stop it completely, putting an opponent in the position of