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October 3, 2019

'Secret Science' Rule Delayed Until Next Year

David Randall

Last month the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency announce that the proposed rule "Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science" would not be finalized before 2020. This......

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October 3, 2019

Episode #39: Burdens of Freedom with Larry Mead

Peter Wood

What’s the chief threat to American leadership today? Larry Mead, Professor of Politics and Public Policy at New York University, argues that it is the decline of individualism.

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October 3, 2019

Scholars Disappointed by Decision Upholding Harvard Discrimination

National Association of Scholars

The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts upholds racial discrimination in admissions by Harvard University. 

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October 2, 2019

Testing Threatens "Civic Education"

David Randall

New Civics finds an enemy in standardized testing. It turns out, explains David Randall, that tests require extensive factual knowledge. The sort of knowledge that only comes from in-class education a......

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October 1, 2019

This Did Not Happen, as Well as Things That Did

John Cussen

A campus fiction about a Catholic professor's encounters with the politics of promotion in academia. 

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