Author Archives: Daniel Little

This is surely a war crime, on a par with atrocities committed by the Russian army in Ukraine. No members of these boat crews are “combatants” in the technical sense, there is no state of war, and disarmed and helpless … Continue reading →

This is truly an outrage. If any private person posted such a message he would be investigated and likely prosecuted for making threats of violence against specific persons. How can it be that our president can make deadly threats and … Continue reading →

Wow, this is a pretty amazing secretive program of mass surveillance across the United States. Did we the people agree to have our travels tracked and analyzed, and then used as a basis for highway stops leading to searches and … Continue reading →

Another mass protest against the dictatorial efforts and strategies of the Trump administration … Let the people speak! "Remove the Regime" protests in DC to demand Trump’s impeachment https://share.google/mBuZvjMet95fMlm2N

A very clear and carefully reasoned critique of the Texas A and M policy requiring the president’s approval for courses on race, gender, and gender identity … Push back! https://www.naacpldf.org/press-release/ldf-denounces-texas-am-university-systems-adoption-of-new-discriminatory-policy-restricting-teaching-of-race-and-gender/

What an admirable demonstration of academic freedom by the incoming chair of the history department at Columbia University. Camille Robcis doesn’t offer a treatise about the principle of academic freedom. Instead, she demonstrates her own commitments to academic freedom and … Continue reading →

Hate on the internet seems to grow by the month … racism was normalized, and now it is swamping us and endangering innocent people… where will this end? Racists are now openly targeting Indian Americans https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/us/indian-americans-racism-maga-cec

This is simply appalling. It is a blatant interference in the freedom of students to learn honest truths about their history and the freedom of professors to discuss matters of race and gender openly in their courses. Would a course … Continue reading →

Donald Trump doesn’t need to destroy the court system to get his way, Aziz Huq writes. He just needs to create a shadow zone where the law no longer applies. Welcome to America’s “prerogative state”. Aziz Huq teaches law at … Continue reading →

The deliberate cruelty of this action is stunning … To deliberately interfere with states’ own efforts to cover the food crisis created by MAGA intransigence about SNAP is nothing short of barbarous. It is an overt and explicit statement that … Continue reading →