Professor Loses His Job for Talking About Gender Dysphoria
Aug 29, 2019
Good morning from Washington, where health officials conclude that a nurse’s conscience rights were violated by a Vermont hospital that performs abortions. Fred Lucas reports. Alaska confronts its conflict with a major Supreme Court ruling on labor unions and government employees, Kevin Mooney writes. A professor of child psychiatry sacked for expressing views on gender tells his story to Rachel del Guidice. Plus: Jarrett Stepman on the thin skins of New York Times writers, Star Parker on our crisis of values, and “Problematic Women” guest Romina Boccia on treasuring U.S. citizenship. Seventy years ago today, the Soviet Union detonates its first atomic bomb.
Academia Today ‘Not for Faint-Hearted,’ Says Professor Who Lost His Job for Talking About Gender
“I really was an academic physician, not a politician. I wasn’t there with an agenda or an activist position,” says Dr. Allan Josephson, former head of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Louisville School of Medicine.
Is Turnabout Fair Play? Legacy Media Dish Out Scrutiny, but Can’t Take It.
Mainstream media has the incredible power to destroy lives and careers, yet apparently thinks it has a special privilege to be exempted from the magnifying glass it often unfairly turns on everyone else.
Vermont Hospital Violated Nurse’s Conscience Rights on Abortion, HHS Says
The University of Vermont Medical Center allegedly forced a nurse to participate in an abortion despite her objections, in violation of federal law protecting conscience rights.
Problematic Women: No, Taylor Swift, You Need to Calm Down
Plus: We interview one of America’s newest citizens, Heritage Foundation scholar Romina Boccia, about what it was like going through the citizenship process and what becoming a U.S. citizen means to her.
Alaska Moves to Comply With Supreme Court on Deducting Union Dues
Because public sector employers no longer are permitted to deduct labor union dues or fees from an employee’s paycheck without that employee’s “affirmative consent,” the state’s payroll deduction system “fails to satisfy constitutional standards,” says Alaska Attorney General Kevin G. Clarkson.
Our Changing Values Should Worry Us. But We Can Still Change Course
The founders of the country saw the nation’s existence, its faith, and its posterity as a package deal. Now we have a young generation, our future, that dismisses the importance of all the elements of that package.
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