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Basnet is the second student in four years from Hunter to receive a Rhodes, one of the world’s most selective awards for post-graduate study.

As its name should make abundantly clear, Critical Race Theory (CRT) is the child of Critical Theory (CT), or, to be more precise, its grandchild. Critical Theory is the immediate forebearer of Critical Legal Theory (CLT), and CLT begat CRT. As we discuss in this Backgrounder, however, there are strong thematic components linking CT, CLT, and CRT. Among these are:

Housing and Development Newsletter Under Pelosi’s leadership as House speaker, lawmakers tacked the restriction onto a $1.37 trillion appropriations bill that won congressional approval and was signed into law in December 2019. Three and a half decades earlier, Congress passed the 1984 National Minimum Drinking Age Act to limit the sale of alcoholic beverages to adults 21 and older. That measure used highway funds as leverage to wheedle states into changing their laws. The tobacco age increase relied on federal authority in the Commerce Clause of the Constitution to steamroll state legislat...

Oklahoma Bill Increases Penalties for Adults Who Provide Alcohol to Minors May 3, 2021 Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt has signed a bill strengthening penalties for those who knowingly sell or provide alcohol to minors. Senate Bill 283 by Sen. Michael Brooks, D-Oklahoma City, will require those convicted of such offenses to attend a victims impact panel program, along with other current penalties. Brooks explained that the legislation was originally requested by a government class at Oklahoma City’s Southeast High School, who had participated in the Generat...

The Manton Avenue Project (pictured on Facebook) is one of the grant recipients. The Rhode Island Council for the Humanities has announced major grant awards to 15 public projects and documentary films that showcase the power of the humanities to connect communities and strengthen civil society. “This past year has presented so many obstacles to humanities organizations, to scholars, and to artists. Nevertheless, this community has adapted to the pandemic and risen to the challenge to reach people through the humanities, to contend with the past and to be part of a movement for justice. Th...