January 4, 2013

College Hurts Productivity!

George Leef

Robert Weissberg contends that for many students, college just delays the time when they'll have to drop the slovenly habits they've acquired through years in the soft and undemanding world......

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December 31, 2012

The Mind of Students

Will Fitzhugh

Students' minds are the main engines of academic work; we should try to learn what's going on inside them, argues Will Fitzhugh.

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December 21, 2012

Winning Public Support

William H. Young

William Young examines ongoing policy debates over taxation and public perception.

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December 20, 2012

Perspectives Unbound

Robert L. Jackson

Confronted with the Howard Zinn-ing of history, Mary Grabar writes, “The abandonment of objectivity is an acknowledgement that one is no longer teaching history.”

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December 19, 2012

Is this the best UNCW could do?

George Leef

Jay Schalin writes about the latest addition to the English faculty at UNC-Wilmington, a professor whose work ranges from the silly to the unprintable.

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December 15, 2012

Conservative Undergraduates at Liberal Colleges, Cont'd

Glenn Ricketts

A self-described conservative student's experience at her very liberal undergraduate institution.

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December 14, 2012

Disruptive Innovation or Distracting Technology?

Robert L. Jackson

Will “disruptive innovation” within higher education enable the market to close inefficient colleges and universities, while producing the best in content? Richard Vedder says yes.

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December 13, 2012

Taxing Small Business

William H. Young

William Young examines the probable impact of proposed new tax policies affecting small businesses.

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December 12, 2012

The Debate over Online Higher Ed

George Leef

The arguments at a recent Cato Institute debate shed light on the pros and cons of online higher ed.

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December 12, 2012

Eastern Michigan University Settles with Expelled Counseling Student Julea Ward

Ashley Thorne

Eastern Michigan University will pay $75,000 to settle a suit brought by Julea Ward, a counseling student the university expelled because of her beliefs about homosexuality.

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A Reckoning for Higher Education?

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Fighting Harvard and the Other Cultural Warlords

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

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....

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In Memoriam: David Horowitz

We celebrate and remember the life of David Horowitz, a champion of intellectual freedom and truth-telling during a long era of lies, collective self-deception, and institutional malfea......