People without college degrees, or even high school diplomas, appear to understand property rights. Why can’t law school professors? Evidence of the former can be found trend can be found in the number of signs…
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
Law Schools v. The Law
The definition of law is being twisted by officials who feel they are above the law, said a Reagan judicial appointee.
Professor: The ‘Government does not do a Good Job of what it should be doing’
The government is not doing a good job at its main responsibility of representing the people, said a college professor from Hillsdale College.
College President Wary of Big Government
That alone is a newsflash. Usually, college presidents approach big government with their hands out. At the Cato Institute on March 30, 2017, Mark Zupan, president of Alfred University, noted that trust in government is…
Academic Economist Endorses Free Market Health Care Reform
Occasionally, one of our more free market economists in academe latches onto an idea that moves us away from collectivism. Unfortunately, the impact is usually marginal. Such an idea is “reference pricing,” or competitive pricing…
Trump Education Budget Rattles Establishment
President Trump’s budget “blueprint” for the U. S. Department of Education recommends a 13 percent decrease in spending for the agency, but provides few details on how he will reach that goal. Nevertheless, the details…
Immigrants’ Children Assimilating To Gangs
When advocates of immigration controls suggest that legal immigrants and their children “assimilate” to the United States, they usually mean acquiring a working knowledge of the U. S. Constitution. Unfortunately, it may be easier for…
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Liberals Endangered in Own Natural Habitat: Liberal Colleges
At Skidmore College, where there are no immediately identifiable conservatives, faculty members have started to intimidate liberals with stray thoughts. Robert Boyers, an English professor at Skidmore, recounted a couple of recent episodes in The…
College Professors Want to Cut the Defense Budget
Academics are upset that they don’t get as many chances as they would like to contribute to U. S. foreign policy. Maybe that’s a good thing. On the one hand, most of them opposed the…
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Academic Intolerance: An Inside View
We have an old Pennsylvania Dutch saying that goes: “Ve grow too soon alt und too late schmart.” Perhaps many college officers feel this way. “Over the years, I have watched a growing intolerance at…