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Reuters Threats to free speech on public college campuses are increasingly being driven more by students than administrators, a panel of experts who spoke at a virtual Baylor University event said Wednesday.  The worlds largest Baptist university hosted a webinar titled “Free Speech on Campus: Is it in Danger?” featuring conservative evangelical writer and former attorney David French, openly gay scholar and author Jonathan Rauch and other advocates for free speech.  The event was held...

Circles of partnership, not lines of division by Emily Chamlee-Wright Print this article I remember the first time I met Charles Koch. It was in the late 1980s. I was a graduate student at George Mason University. We were told that Mr. Koch, a Wichita businessman, had pioneered a philosophy of organizational management he called “Market Based Management.” MBM applied the principles of market coordination to decision-making inside the firm. For a group of young econo...

When the NLRA was being drafted and debated in the 1930s, a central question was whether or not compulsory unionism should apply to government employees. The growing pool of government employees made a tempting target for union organizers, but there was great opposition for a number of reasons. First, opponents of mandatory collective bargaining for government employees argued that compulsory unionism would threaten public safety. Forcing military leaders to bargain collectively with armed for...