April 19, 2011
The author of Fahrenheit 451 gave up a college education to keep his job and learn in the library, after realizing that going to college could ruin his life. His story may have relevance for many yo......
April 18, 2011
In today's Pope Center piece, Jay Schalin writes about this year's budget battle in North Carolina, in which the UNC system, despite all its friends in high places, taken a hit. Evidently, t......
April 18, 2011
A professor emeritus of economics makes a case for markets as the true path to future generations' prosperity.
April 15, 2011
Student press writers this week ponder the legality of military operations in Libya, the need for an undergraduate science requirement, why spending cuts are the key to economic recovery and the Oba......
April 15, 2011
Will reduced federal funding for Title VI foreign language study hurt national competence or help cut academic waste?
April 13, 2011
Harvard's Pathways to Prosperity project challenges the conventional wisdom that the U.S. simply must process more young people through college, saying that for many young people, there are bett......
April 13, 2011
Over at the leading libertarian magazine, Reason, writer Shikha Dalmia attacks conservatives for using FOIA laws to invade the privacy of historian William Cronon. At the same time, Dalmia defends O......
March 3, 2026
The U.S. strike on Iran and the foreign funding shaping how universities respond to it....
March 11, 2026
Trump’s EOs and the Supreme Court make DEI illegal—but colleges keep rebranding it to dodge the law....
January 27, 2026
As Western civilization courses vanish from higher education, so too are history professors, to the detriment of our civilization....
May 15, 2015
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....
February 21, 2014
Is art worth dying for? The Monuments Men considers the value of good art and its purpose in preserving a cultural heritage....
October 17, 2018
William Young finds much to praise in the hit musical....
