In Defense of Sandra Sellers and David Batson

BY JOHN K. WILSON This past week, Georgetown law school fired adjunct professor Sandra Sellers (and suspended her co-instructor David Batson) for an accidentally recorded conversation about racial disparities in student grades. In the video, which was recorded in February when the taping of the class continued after all the students had left the session,…

Now the Shoe is On the Other Foot

BY HANK REICHMAN For some time we have been repeatedly assaulted by exaggerated claims from the political Right that student objections to institutional racism and sexism on campuses violate freedom of speech by imposing an orthodoxy of “political correctness.”  Conservative pundits have openly mocked student charges that racist and sexist behavior can be traumatic for…