January 25, 2012

The Virtues of a Free Market in Postsecondary Education

George Leef

A bid for eliminating federal intervention and coercion of higher education.  

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January 25, 2012

Ask a Scholar: Current Racial Score Gap Stats

Stephan Thernstrom

Is the data about racial achievement gaps in the book No Excuses still true today?

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January 23, 2012

Aggressive Anti-Bullying Crusade Gathers Steam

Glenn Ricketts

You can easily imagine how  “anti-bullying” policies will likely to play out on college campuses already dominated by the enforcers of sensitivity.

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January 23, 2012

The Ruinous Reign of Race-and-Gender Historians

KC Johnson

If you need to consult history texts focused on traditional constitutional or political themes, KC Johnson notes that you'll have to look at specimens from 35-40 years ago. No one writes such bo......

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January 21, 2012

SCOTUS Strikes Down Raced-Based Redistricting in Texas

Glenn Ricketts

Race based legislative boundaries are banned in Texas in a case that bears on university admissions policy.

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January 20, 2012

Law Schools Under Critical Scrutiny

Glenn Ricketts

Ideology has pervaded law schools to the detriment of student preparation for practice.  Are law degrees therefore still necessary?

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January 20, 2012

U Florida Students Practice Civil Debate

Ashley Thorne

There's a set of electronic panels in Florida that is supposed to foster civility among students whose opinions differ.

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January 20, 2012

Academic Questions Cited in New York Post

Ashley Thorne

The idea of a bubble in higher education as considered in NAS's journal is getting wider notice.

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January 20, 2012

Collegiate Press Roundup

Glenn Ricketts

Student press writers ponder the long-term significance of the OWS movement, analyze the social dynamics of different beers, cite the perils of the SOPA bill in Congress and endorse a proposal for a......

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March 3, 2026

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The Ayatollah’s Friends are on Your Campus

The U.S. strike on Iran and the foreign funding shaping how universities respond to it....

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Bad Faith Noncompliance: Virginia Schools Flout Supreme Court and Trump with DEI ‘Rebrand’

Trump’s EOs and the Supreme Court make DEI illegal—but colleges keep rebranding it to dodge the law....

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Losing the West

As Western civilization courses vanish from higher education, so too are history professors, to the detriment of our civilization....

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May 15, 2015

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Where Did We Get the Idea That Only White People Can Be Racist?

A look at the double standard that has arisen regarding racism, illustrated recently by the reaction to a black professor's biased comments on Twitter....

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Taking Care

Is art worth dying for? The Monuments Men considers the value of good art and its purpose in preserving a cultural heritage....

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Hamilton: An American Musical - Its National Influence as Art

William Young finds much to praise in the hit musical....