Stories by Robert Steinbuch

Be afraid of the darkness My very first Sunday column discussed the importance of Arkansas' light-shining Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)--the law I've dedicated my career to analyzing and protecting.In that column, ... June 4, 2023

OPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: The hijacking of higher education I readily reiterate below that my views expressed here don't reflect those of my school. That faculty and administrators shouldn't endorse political positions on behalf of universities was onc... May 28, 2023

OPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Henny Penny’s high-minded hypocrisy State Sen. Dan Sullivan sponsored Act 372, which eliminates an exception in obscenity law for librarians, codifies elected-official oversight of book placement in libraries, and criminalizes providing... May 21, 2023

Academia is not a sideline career I smile when lawyers tell me they want to become professors after they retire. Apparently, to them, academia is equivalent to playing shuffleboard at Del Boca Vista.The false perception that academia ... May 14, 2023

Making water services great again Greater Little Rock has one public utility for clean water entering homes, Central Arkansas Water (CAW), and another for the dirty water leaving, Little Rock Reclamation (wastewater) Authority--even t... May 7, 2023

Selective outrage over discrimination You might recall the details of how Ashlyn Hoggard had her First Amendment rights violated by Arkansas State University when she studied there. Because I've told you that I intend to continue to s... April 30, 2023

The good, the bad, the very ugly A week ago, I was one of four invited speakers discussing affirmative action on a panel at the University of Arkansas Law School in Fayetteville.Two participants were "pro"--Rodney Slater (f... April 23, 2023

Conservatives not in the House today It's often said that we get the Legislature we deserve. Not this time.Arkansas is a dramatically conservative state. Yet, when SB71, the bill to end government quotas, set-asides, and preferences,... April 16, 2023

The education-industrial complex It's positively preposterous how palaces of purported progressive pundits preaching primarily performative pigment-and-plumbing prioritizing policies appropriate procuratores' practices when p... April 9, 2023

Affirmative action and its DEI doppelganger I've written about the need to end both the institutional racism of quotas, set-asides and preferences--aka affirmative action--as well as the communist conformity curriculum called diversity, equ... April 2, 2023

Socialists’ social engineering must end The time of smoke-filled back-room deals that undermine the will of the people has yet to come to an end.Take current attempts to thwart Arkansans' yearning to eliminate the scourge of race-and-ge... March 26, 2023

An end to quotas, preferences When California eliminated state-sponsored discrimination nearly 30 years ago by prohibiting preferences based on race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment,... March 19, 2023

Admire the honesty—or the brazenness A Freedom of Information Act request of state universities produced bone-chilling diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) PowerPoint slides.At the University of Central Arkansas, "diversity indica... March 12, 2023

Free speech rights must be enforced Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)-driven leftist-lamasery Stanford never seems to miss an opportunity to undermine free speech.Recently I wrote about the Cardinals' little red DEI-to-English ... March 5, 2023

OPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: There’s racism, and there’s politics Each decennial census potentially moves the lines of Arkansas' four congressional districts based on population shifts. This, in turn, may affect the biennial legislative session occurring immedia... February 26, 2023

Deciphering the meaning of ‘is’ My column revealing the sweetheart deal Arkansas State University gave private entity Cobblestone to sell liquor on campus disturbed Jeff Hankins, the Vice President for Strategic Communications and E... February 19, 2023

Stop the hostility to free speech In previous columns discussing the progressive scourge of so-called Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), I mockingly referred to the left's politically correct policing of language as necessita... February 12, 2023

Opposing approaches to Jewish values A joke attributed to Jewish comedians from upstate New York resorts in the 1960s--affectionately known as the Borscht Belt--recounts sailors rescuing a solitary Jew stranded on a deserted island. He s... February 5, 2023

Boss Hogg as ASU’s role model Arkansas State University in Jonesboro handed over the highly lucrative right to sell alcohol in ASU's First National Bank Basketball Arena, Centennial Football Stadium, Cooper Alumni Center, Fowl... January 29, 2023

Time to end the obscenity Under current law, no Arkansas school or library employee acting within the scope of his or her employment is liable for disseminating obscene material to children and others that would rightly land a... January 22, 2023

OPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH Determining Jews’ political values Frequently I'm asked by Arkansans why Jews still lean left politically. The answer is a vestige of bygone days where Jews were unwelcome in conservative circles. Now, Jews should be far more align... January 15, 2023