March 17, 2010

Reminiscences of Columbia, 1968

Glenn Ricketts

Recently, we took note of a story in the Chronicle of Higher Education which offered a retrospective from a professor whose office had been sacked and his research papers burned by student radicals......

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March 17, 2010

Education Professors Let the Mask Slip

George Leef

Education school professors want us to think that they're experts who only have the best interests of students at heart. No doubt some do, but many are radicals who believe that good teaching me......

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March 17, 2010

Government Higher Ed Takeover Looms, NAS Reports

Ashley Thorne

Federal control of the student loan industry could mean serious unintended consequences for the university.

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March 17, 2010

Virtus from the Ancient Republics to the Postmodern, Part IV

George Seaver

To what degree has postmodernism's influence on American education, media, corporations, law, families, and military eroded our concern for public virtue?

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March 16, 2010

Gay Rights and Viewpoint Coercion

Glenn Ricketts

There's a sobering piece by longtime civil libertarian Wendy Kaminer in the current online Atlantic Monthly about the perils of being an evangelical Christian on campus these days, especially if......

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March 16, 2010

Federal Direct Lending Will Make College Students Government Clients

Peter Wood

A reply to Lawrence Auster's blog post: ObamaCare as you rightly point out is a life and death issue.  That means that the efforts to pass it necessarily overshadow everything else.  The......

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March 16, 2010

Virtus from the Ancient Republics to the Postmodern, Part III

George Seaver

America's animating principle at its founding was virtue; its inhabitants instinctively claim that virtue, appealing to "liberty and justice for all."

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March 16, 2010

Climategate Deniers

Peter Wood

Global warming evangelists use a peculiar form of apologetics to reassure the public that they're still right.

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March 16, 2010

College Boom...No Comment

National Association of Scholars

From 1973 to 2007, the percentage of students who enroll in college jumped 20%.

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March 15, 2010

Doth the Students Protest Too Much? Or Too Mistakenly?

Ashley Thorne

Earlier this month NAS covered the March 4 rallies in California and all over the country, where students protested exorbitant tuition prices due to state budget cuts to public higher education. Whi......

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

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Ask a Scholar: What is the True Definition of Latino?

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