David Bass of the John Locke Foundation argues in this sharp piece that the mania for putting as many people as possible in college has given us 26 year-olds in diapers (figuratively speaking). Among the costs of overselling higher education is the fact that all it does for many kids (it seems an abuse of English to call them "students") is to prolong adolescence and give them a terribly false set of expectations.
June 6, 2024
We have undermined the leftist status quo in higher education for decades with the persistence of Morlocks. You really should be more alarmed about us than you are. Not that I’m going......
July 30, 2024
The dark secret of anti-Semitism is that ignorance alone cannot explain it away or absolve those who adhere to it. If anything, the most vivid episodes of history’s anti-Semitism have......
August 6, 2024
An assessment of the Republican higher education platform....
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....
October 12, 2010
What does it mean to be Latino? Are only Latin American people Latino, or does the term apply to anyone whose language derived from Latin?...
May 28, 2009
A philosophy professor finds an Internet legend subbing for the Gospel truth and looks in vain for "critical reasoning."...
