Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave a restaurant in Virginia. I think this is a positive good, and I don’t think Masterpiece bakers had the right to refuse a gay couple a cake. There is nothing in the Masterpiece case to indicate that the customers behaved or intended to behave, professionally or personally, in a way […]
Michael O'Hare
Michael O'Hare is a Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education
Another Cal Athletics Moment
With our intercollegiate athletics department’s typical management finesse, we extended our football coach’s contract about a year ago…and fired him this week. He walks away with about $6m in severance, but that’s OK because we’re just finishing up the zillion-dollar severance payments for the previous coach, and the AD who is now at Penn State, so there’s […]
Posted inPolitics
The Oakland Warehouse Fire
There are three big lessons to take from this catastrophe.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education
Berkeley Intercollegiate Athletics at A[nother] Crossroads
Cal sports cost the campus about $30 million per year.
Posted inPolitics
Trump’s Debate Performance Showcased His Worst Qualities
He’s a terrible person, but that’s hardly the only disqualifying factor.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education
Giving Management a Bad Name
This is how not to plan an education building.
Posted inPolitics
Magical Thinking is a Moral Failing, Not a Charming Quirk
Bernie Sanders supporters need to listen to Bernie now.
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The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Reopens
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art reopened last week after a couple of years expanding the building, to what is now the largest modern art museum in North America. SFMOMA has been decades behind the big money and cultural insecurity that built top-rank arts institutions in Los Angeles, and further behind the establishment and […]
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Names in Transit
One of the nice things about living in a country of immigration is, well, living among people from all sorts of interesting places with different ideas and habits. And their children. A nice reminder of this gift is all the foreign names we encounter. What’s “foreign” to an American is of course a very fuzzy […]
