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Explore the debate and science of Socialism.

February 20, 2019

How Higher Education Incubated the Eco-Socialism of the Green New Deal

Rachelle Peterson

Sustainability is an ideology in which protecting the environment also concerns protecting society from dangers of any kind. But at what cost?

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December 11, 2018

Socialism: Then and Now

Svetozar Pejovich

Is the rising socialism in America home-grown socialism or a replica of the three types of socialism from the last century? 

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October 26, 2016

The “Cultural Revolution” Comes to American Academia

Old Communist language and tactics are infiltrating American higher education, aided by our historical amnesia.

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November 3, 2014

Academic Social Science - Rousseau Redux

William H. Young

William Young examines the enduring influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseu in academic social science.

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September 8, 2014

Academic Social Science and Governance

William H. Young

William Young returns to evaluate the influence of the social sciences on public choice.

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April 23, 2014

Unpersuasive book argues that higher education should have a leftist bias

George Leef

"It reminds me of Don Quixote. Lazere wants his friends to see how gloriously he jousts with and punctures all those horrible right-wingers. But Cervantes’s novel is entertaining; the pages of t......

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February 28, 2013

Social Justice and the Economy

William H. Young

William Young explores the probable economic impact of redistributionist social justice policies.

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January 24, 2013

Social Justice and Human Nature

William H. Young

William Young explores contrasting views of human nature and their implications for public policy.

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November 13, 2012

Prager U: Free Market Morality

Jason Fertig

Is the free market morally superior or inferior to other economic systems?

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August 3, 2011

Human Nature and Western Civilization

William H. Young

William H. Young begins a new occasional series of articles focused on Western Civilization and current academic issues with a discussion of human nature.

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