Mitchell Langbert's Blog

Hudson Valley One covered my candidacy in the Town of Olive town supervisor race here. Although I lost to my able opponent, Jim Sofranko, I continue to work on important projects and to teach fu...

http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2021/11/current-activities.html

Update: I lost the election.   My chief interests in running are (1) property rights, (2) freedom of choice, (3) respect for home rule and localism, (4) volunteerism coupled with traditional ...

http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2021/07/my-candidacy-for-town-supervisor-of.html

PO Box 130 West Shokan, NY 12494 July 21, 2020 Catherine Lacavera, Director IP and Litigation Google LLC 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043 Sent via Certified Mail ...

http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2020/07/po-box-130-west-shokan-ny-12494-july-21.html

My wife of almost 24 years, Freda, died on January 26. My love for her will never die. The funeral will be today, Friday, January 31, at the Gromley Funeral Home in Phoenicia, NY.  Her obituar...

http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2020/01/freda-bernstein-langbert-rip.html

Toward the end of  Shakespeare's Henry V, Fluellen, King Harry's self-appointed mentor, remarks on the king's glorious victory at Agincourt: FLUELLEN > By Jeshu, I am your majesty's ...

http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2020/01/shakespeare-on-dershowitz.html

"I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends on one's mastery of the language." --Joan Didion

http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2020/01/didion-on-rise-of-conformity.html

The Democratic Party in Virginia proposes a Virginia law that can be used to attack free speech.  House Bill 1627 says: If any person, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass any pers...

http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-virginia-democratic-party-proposes.html

The study Sean Stevens and I recently put on the National Association of Scholars blog has been covered by mainstream sources, including Breitbart , the Von Mises Institute , the College Fix , W...

http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2020/01/breitbart-college-fix-von-mises.html

Sean Stevens and I have been working on a study of 12,372 professors in the two leading private and two leading public colleges in 31 states that make registration public (mostly closed-primary ...

http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2020/01/partisan-registration-and-contributions.html

Dear Senator McSally: I've sent you a $100 contribution to thank you for standing up to CNN reporter Manu Raju.   The American media has deteriorated to the point at which treating them with ...

http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2020/01/my-letter-in-support-of-martha-mcsally.html

D an Klein raises this question at Econlib.org:   Does the recent federal law increasing the smoking age to 21 make sense?  He turns to the great observer of 1830s America, Alexis De Tocquevi...

http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2020/01/should-you-have-to-be-21-to-smoke.html

Dear President Spinelli: I urge you to reconsider the firing of Asheen Phansey.  I hold diametrically opposite views to Prof. Phansey’s, but more important considerations of freedom of speec...

http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2020/01/letter-to-babson-colleges-president.html

The Queens Village Republican Club , the country's oldest Republican club, invited me to participate in a three-professor panel about higher education reform.  The chair of the club, Phil Orenst...

http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2020/01/my-panel-talk-at-queens-village.html

The Queens Village Republican Club, the country's oldest Republican club, has asked me to participate in a panel on higher education at their monthly meeting on January 2. As well, I w...

http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2019/12/queens-village-republican-club-invites.html

 Dear Mr. President: Have you thought of negotiating a cross-nomination deal with the Libertarian National Committee? I am a lifelong supporter of Libertarian Party candidates.  I have sin...

http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2019/12/win-win-gains-from-libertarian-party.html

The college has a formal evaluation system, and there are teacher-rating systems available online.  Often, however, I receive thank-yous from students who have benefited from my courses.  I rec...

http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2019/12/students-thank-me-for-exceptional.html

Dear Mr. President: The deterioration of the American media and its open partisanship should be addressed through an antitrust action.  More than 75 percent of airwave and cable broadcasters a...

http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2019/12/need-for-antitrust-action-against.html

Americans for Limited Government has emailed a release that calls for the ending of American Bar Association accreditation of law schools.  ALG characterizes ABA accreditation as crony capitali...

http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2019/12/americans-for-limited-government-calls.html

Ms. Melania Trump The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, DC 20500 Dear Ms. Trump: I didn’t vote for your husband, but I support him now.  I wanted to voice special support...

http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2019/12/letter-in-support-of-first-lady.html

On Nov. 2, 2019 the New York Post  ran an editorial on the lopsided, often delusional,  political beliefs of today's college students, and the editorial discusses my research on faculty politic...

http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2019/11/college-kids-hard-turn-left-means.html

The Honorable Betsy DeVos Secretary of Education U.S. Department of Education Dear Madam Secretary: Yesterday, the National Association of Scholars held a conference call to discuss its 1620 ...

http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2019/10/letter-to-betsy-devos-re-1619-initiative.html

I teach classes in managerial skills and human resource management.  Both are linked to issues surrounding success, career progression, and wages.  My managerial skills teaching focuses on tryi...

http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2019/10/my-lesson-on-how-big-government-creates.html

The President The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, DC 20500 Dear Mr. President: This is a letter of support in light of the unfair allegations that Democratic Party and fa...

http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2019/09/across-board-cuts-needed-to-drain-swamp.html

I was listening to Judge Napolitano on Shepard Smith on Wednesday, Sept. 25.  (I have been using Fox as background while I'm entering data.) There seems to be a confusion on the part of Judge...

http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2019/09/how-judge-napolitano-got-it-wrong.html

My sister and I inherited an apartment in western Queens, and after almost 10 years of co-owning it, we are going to sell it to her daughter. As a result, I will have a chunk of investment capita...

http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-mystery-of-low-income-reits.html