Source: Jonathan Turley
by Jonathan Turley

“Cornell University has long been an example of an academic echo chamber where conservative and libertarian faculty have been largely purged from departmental ranks. For example, a study by The College Fix found that Democrats outnumber Republicans 98 to 1 among Cornell professors across six of the humanities departments. Cornell professors disrupt events, launch campaigns to fire the remaining conservative faculty, and foster a cancel campaign culture on campus. However, the faculty recently decided to review its own record and found … wait for it! … that there really are no concrete measures needed to address their own overwhelming ideological bias. According to a 238-page faculty report from the Committee on the Future of the American University, there was no consensus on ideological bias or how to handle it.” (10/21/26)

https://jonathanturley.org/2026/10/21/cornell-faculty-complete-massive-self-study-that-fails-to-address-ideological-bias-in-hiring/

Source: Law & Liberty
by Michael B Poliakoff

“The number of civic institutes, centers, and schools at public universities has increased significantly since the first one, the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership (SCETL) at Arizona State University, emerged in 2017. Beginning in 2021, nineteen new centers and institutes have been established. Although many institutions have launched initiatives to enhance civic education, here I focus on the phenomenon of centers independent of any existing academic department but which are established by legislative or trustee action.” (10/21/26)

https://lawliberty.org/best-practices-for-a-last-best-hope/

Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Thomas Fazi

“These days, barely a week goes by in Europe without a drone sighting, a fire or a power outage being blamed on Russia. We’re told that these incidents are all part of a relentless, and escalating, ‘hybrid war’ that Moscow is waging against the continent. Tensions escalated dramatically last month after Germany formally attributed to Moscow a ‘failed’ drone attack on Leipzig/Halle airport. But does the evidence support Western claims that Russia is engaged in a systematic hybrid war against Europe?” (10/21/26)

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/hybrid-warfare-russia/

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“Lesson One: Gun-control laws do not stop people who are determined to commit murder. … Lesson Two: Concealed-carry laws protect people. … Lesson Three: This lesson will be the controversial one, especially for people who worship, admire, and adore the U.S. national-security establishment and its policy of foreign interventionism.” (10/21/26)

https://www.fff.org/2026/10/21/three-big-lessons-from-the-oregon-school-shooting/

Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Tim Worstall

“One meaning of the free part of free markets is that the market is free to enter. Anyone, with whatever idea, is free to set up shop and try it out. This is what is being misunderstood here: ‘In a move nobody outside of boardrooms asked for, Target has become the first fashion retailer in Australia to make its products available to order via the Uber Eats app as of September. …’ Technology changes over time. There is always some new set of possibilities among the things that can be done therefore. We don’t know whether people would like those new things done. The only way we’ve got of finding out is to do the new thing then see. No, just asking people doesn’t work, there’s always a difference between expressed and revealed preferences. This is, in the jargon, the function of the entrepreneur.” (10/21/26)

https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/misunderstanding-the-free-part-of-free-markets

Source: American Institute for Economic Research
by David Hebert

“This explainer will lay out the federal budget relay race process that takes a proposed spending plan from a wishlist to an actual check while operating under rules designed to keep total spending in line.” (10/21/26)

https://aier.org/article/how-the-federal-budget-gets-made/