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Raymond Ramirez | Tuesday, March 6, 2018
The First Amendment to the Constitution opens with a dual pledge of religious liberty: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” The first part of this provision has come to be known as the Establishment Clause. While the “free exercise” of religion promised in the rest
Catherine Baker | Monday, December 7, 2015
What is free speech? This question has dogged philosophers for centuries. We all know the First Amendment protects this right: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,
Neil Joseph | Tuesday, December 1, 2015
I’m thankful that Notre Dame hasn’t been in the news this past month. We’ve seen plenty of our peer institutions in the news for the wrong reasons, and I’m glad we haven’t followed. Yale, Mizzou and scores of other universities have been in national news because of student unrest due to racial issues. Why haven’t
Kate Hardiman | Monday, November 16, 2015
Free speech is under assault at our nation’s universities. Rather than entertaining opposing ideas in order to debate them, students attack “offensive” statements and the people who make them. Last week, for example, students at Yale protested and disrupted a pro-free speech event hosted by the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program. According to an article penned by
Louis Bertolotti | Wednesday, October 28, 2015
In response to my last column, associate professor of the romance languages and literatures department, Ben Heller, wrote a Letter to the Editor chiding The Observer for “unconscionably” publishing the piece. I, however, believe that it is “unconscionable” that he would even suggest this and find it insulting to our beautiful democracy which he claims to
Letter to the Editor | Sunday, February 23, 2014
“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.” So said William F. Buckley, Jr., the founder of “National Review” and one of the fathers of modern American conservatism. In “The left’s intolerant ‘tolerance’” on Tuesday, Mark Gianfalla rightly calls