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July 23, 2010

Map: Proportion of American Adults with College Degrees

Ashley Thorne

Achieving President Obama's goal of becoming the world's most-educated nation will require approximately doubling the size of higher education. Is that a good thing?

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July 22, 2010

Striving for Socio-Economic Diversity

George Leef

In this Chronicle post, Richard Kahlenberg responds to some criticism (which he labels as "right" and "left") of his signature issue, namely promoting socio-economic diversity as another criterion i......

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July 22, 2010

Campuses''Chokepoint Charlies'

Candace de Russy

Tom Blumer observes that our leftist universities and their ilk possess and abuse their power to destroy careers and control people's lives. The communists, he says, constructed checkpoints, whe......

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July 21, 2010

The Adams Case and the First Amendment

George Leef

In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, Professor Donald Downs (author of Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus) discusses the lawsuit UNC-Wilmington professor Mike Adams has brought agai......

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