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October 11, 2022

A Gulf in Our Middle East Studies

Marina Ziemnick

As long as America’s Middle East Studies Centers are more interested in advancing their ideological agenda than promoting meaningful scholarship, they are not deserving of our taxpayer dollars.

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October 7, 2022

On Tenure

J. Scott Turner

Tenure will only provide the protection it is supposed to when university faculty can wield effective power against the academy’s political overseers.

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October 5, 2022

0% Interest on Student Loans Is the Next Debt Forgiveness

Neetu Arnold

Interest-free student loans benefit the higher education system and the wealthy. But they are not in the interest of most Americans.

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October 4, 2022

Less Money, More Problems

Marina Ziemnick

Biden’s income-based repayment proposal might win over a few voters prior to the midterm elections—but it does so at the expense of the very students it claims to help.

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September 29, 2022

South Dakota’s Education of Our Children: Stand up and Speak out

Karen Proctor

South Dakota's new proposed standard for social studies offers students substantial lessons about living a good life and about what it means to be an American.

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