It turns out that the main forces blocking real affirmative action may be the very establishments that claim to want it the most—institutions of higher learning.
The case for private Social Security accounts is clear. More money + more ownership + more control over your destiny = private accounts are awesome. But you’ll be hard pressed to find a voice of reason on a college campus when it comes to Social Security reform.
Boston College recently amended the speaker policy in the Office of the Dean for Student Development’s Student Guide to make it clear that the school has the power to balance or cancel speakers it feels are not “sensitive to and respectful of the Catholic heritage of the institution.”
Science fiction novelist William Gibson once said, “The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet.” The same could be said of many innovative ideas in education reform.
Recently, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) took sideswipes at Candace de Russy and David Horowitz, though without giving them much of a read first.
When he alit for academia, Friar Kyle Haden landed on my beat and gave me a chance to put memories of his homilies on record so that others could see what they are in for.
Maybe Hollywood just isn’t making films like The Bells of St. Mary’s anymore but a documentary about transgendered students seems an odd choice for a campus diversion at a Catholic college even if one of the film’s subjects is a regular communicant somewhere else.
From the New York Times, we get a couple of more reasons why home schooling is growing in popularity, although the editors there doubtless do not look at it that way.
