Uprooting The Dead in Wayland? Due to dwindling numbers in their congregation, the Church of the Holy Spirit of Wayland had to sell its land and did so to a Coptic church. Roughly 50 people’s cremated remains are buried on the property. However, the Coptic church does not believe in cremation and has different plans for that space. A lawsuit has ensued where 15 families of the deceased have taken the case all the way to the MA Supreme Court. Tonight, your thoughts on the lawsuit.
Free Speech & College Campuses. Are free speech rights dead on college campuses? According to a new study done by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) of 195 MIT faculty, 46% believe mandatory diversity statements are “an ideological litmus test that violates academic freedom”. Attorney Harvey Silverglate & FIRE’s Connor Murnane join Dan to discuss.
Ticketmaster: The “Anti-Hero” of Today? This week Congress held a meeting on how to prevent future Ticketmaster disasters, like the one that occurred last November over Taylor Swift tickets. Is there an unfair monopoly going on in the ticketing/venue industry as Live Nation and Ticketmaster own about 70% of the big concert market? Or is this just capitalism at its best? Does there need to be increased oversight in the ticketing industry?
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