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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March 15, 2010

Do We Need to Keep Affirmative Action Going?

George Leef

In today's Pope Center piece, Larry Purdy (one of the lawyers who worked on the Grutter case) reviews Affirmative Action for the Future by Notre Dame philosophy professor James Sterba. Purdy fin......

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March 15, 2010

He Never Read von Mises

Mitchell Langbert

Communist countries like Russia have developed with extraordinary speed in the past decades entirely by means of public enterprise.  In fact, by our index of the rate of economic growth, i.e.,......

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March 15, 2010

Libel Tourism En Vacances

Peter Wood

A French court puts an American editor on trial over a German book review that offended an Israeli scholar. Hmm...

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March 15, 2010

Obama Loans, Who Collects? The Not-so-Hidden Dangers of Federal Direct Student Lending

Peter Wood

Peter Wood paints a picture of what federal control of higher education could look like in practice.

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March 15, 2010

Virtus from the Ancient Republics to the Postmodern, Part II

George Seaver

Enlightenment thinkers concluded that the balance of power can recover its stability but that the loss of public virtue occurs slowly and is not recoverable.

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