Image by The Free Press on Youtube At the Federalist Society’s National Lawyers Convention, Bari Weiss (Free Press founder and editor) explains how many universities avert constitutional mandates and discriminate against certain students’ ideas: via disproportionate “fees,” logistical hurdles, and shaming/pressure. Weiss recalls Stanford speaker Judge Kyle Duncan, whose hecklers were defended by then-DEI dean…

Pál Szinyei Merse: Balloon, 1882. Image in Public Domain To address high living costs, SJ insists on archaic market controls that artificially—and dangerously—cap tenants’ rents. As Loyola University’s Victoria Perrie and Walter Block explain in Political Dialogues, rent control interferes with housing providers’ capacity to maintain and profit from their units, which keeps investors out…

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By Madison Nguyen Madison Nguyen, Candidate for Santa Clara County Supervisor, District 2. Submitted photo. Editor’s Note: San Jose Inside welcomes opinion pieces from local candidates and community members on topical issues.Submit proposals or articles to [email protected]. Sometimes you learn more when you just roll up your sleeves and do it yourself. A few weeks ago,…

Vincent Van Gogh: The White House at Night, 1890. Image by Wikimedia Commons The Independent Institute looks into San Francisco’s widespread problem of developers bribing low-level bureaucrats to speed up the permitting process. On the other hand, cities like Houston that minimize red tape and quickly issue permits don’t face such rampant corruption. The Institute…

Henry Fuseli: Oedipus Cursing His Son Polynices, 1786. Image in Public Domain Just 1 of 26 University of California Regents has spoken out against the Ethnic Studies Faculty Council’s 10.16 statement, which equated labeling the Hamas attack “terrorism” with a malevolent “colonial narrative” bent on ethnic cleansing. Campus Reform reports that Jay Sures—UC Regent since…

Image by the New York Public Library In the second installment of an exclusive Opp Now series, three contributors—UC Berkeley College Republicans’ Utkarsh Jain, public policy prof Joel Fox, and local housing provider Dean Hotop—analyze how State gov’t performs verbal sleight-of-hand when it comes to titling and describing ballot measures. Utkarsh Jain, UC Berkeley College…

John William Waterhouse: Consulting the Oracle, 1884. Image in Public Domain The San Jose Blog team asked leading generative AI tools to wax poetic on the “vibrant, beating heart” of Silicon Valley—and visualize, through surreal images of glowing aerial pods and skyscrapers, the tech epicenter’s look come 2050. The Blog reminds that AI programs create…

Image by The Free Press on X This week, Stanford junior and Free Press intern Julia Steinberg testified before Congress about rising antisemitism on college campuses. Her verdict? The hate didn’t magically materialize on October 7th. Steinberg traces rampant anti-Israeli discrimination to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion ideologies that “pit groups of students against each other.”…

Image by Charles W. Bailey Jr A recent Merc article observes that some developers are invoking the “builder’s remedy” to downsize or downzone SJ projects, while the provision was intended to encourage and expand affordable housing options in NIMBY jurisdictions. Yet, YIMBY Law’s executive director Sonja Trauss is all in favor of (what she frames…

Image in Public Domain University leadership that celebrates free speech selectively—i.e., for students chanting for Hamas to “smash” Israel, but not for scientists disproving school lockdowns or judges speaking at club meetings—is either part of the Woke mob or afraid of it, says the Wall Street Journal’s Ruth Marcus. Marcus recalls Stanford’s ousting of president…

Bartolomeo Manfredi: Midas Washing at the Source of the Pactolus. Image by Regan Vercrysse In a Reform California webinar, chairman Carl DeMaio breaks down the five key tenets of proposed Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability Act (starting with requiring voter approval of all State tax increases). San Jose CM Doan is the City’s lone supporter…