Their professors may still love it, but college students are going negative on Obamacare and the president whose name is often attached to it.
Monthly Archives For December 2013
Pope Francis and the economists
Editor’s Note: This article first appeared at Forbes.com and The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. The recent economic statements by Pope Francis in his apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (EG) read as a call for…
Learning from the “Experts”
None of the teachers who wrote their take on education policy and reform could ever agree on a single issue, such as teacher layoffs, seniority and standardized testing.
Supply Side’s Academic Vindication?
A pair of University of Maryland economists actually found themselves channeling supply side-icon Jack Kemp although they might be loathe to admit it.
Food Stamps and the Poverty War
The professor rationalized that today’s economy makes it essential to extend these benefits as employment is unstable.
Sarah Palin’s Academic Vindication
Talk about going against the grain: A pair of political scientists from Bradley University actually found that Sarah Palin helped John McCain in the 2008 presidential election.
Common Core’s Uncommon Opponents
If there’s one thing education experts agree on, it’s that Common Core isn’t creating a lot of common alliances!
Do Catholics Need Government?
“The Church that built hospitals, cathedrals, schools, soup kitchens, orphanages, and universities with no government funding in the nineteenth-century can’t seem to survive without it in the twenty-first.”
— Christopher Manion, Ph.D., Director of the Campaign for Humanae Vitae, a project of the Bellarmine Forum.
Reagan’s Good Neighbor Policy
“Reagan rejected the traditional Cold War notion among American policy makers that the best defense against a Communist threat from the left was a strong dictatorship of the right,” Lynch writes.
Those who can’t do…
“It was almost stereotypical of Vietnam decision makers to assume that what they could not do simply could not be done.”
—Hollins University political science professor Edward A. Lynch in his book, The Cold War’s Last Battlefield: Reagan, the Soviets, and Central America.