Three universities contributed to a study that shows that children are faring badly in the Obama years, although they stop short of questioning the official unemployment rate. The 2015 Kids Count Data Book, published by…
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
Corrosion of Sanctuary Cities
“Sanctuary cities” that refuse to turn over deportable felons to the feds are frequently located in college towns. Yet and still, it’s hard to find academics who will speak ill of them, no matter how…
High School Girls Save First Amendment
A pair of high school girls has done something Republican members of Congress only talk about: They saved the First Amendment by actually using it. “In July 2014—the summer before her senior year—Samantha Jones’s father…
How Conservatives Teach
Liberal friends curious about how conservative professors actually teach might consider asking them. That’s what Jeisi Zhao of the Young America’s Foundation did in an interview with George Mason University economist Walter Williams. “I teach…
Detroit’s Choice
Something is actually growing in Detroit, a city that mostly has been in the news for its losses—charter schools, 66 of them. Their growth tracks with a statewide trend, and has the Detroit public schools…
Black Like Rachel
In a way, Rachel Dolezal is a living embodiment of racial progress. In the 1961 book, Black Like Me, white journalist John Howard Griffin pretended to be black in order to show the indignities blacks…
UVM’s Bottles Unintended Consequences
Academics really need to study the effects of unintended consequences more often. When the University of Vermont, one of the greenest campuses in one of the greenest states, banned bottled water, the school gave students…
Rebranding and Renaming Tradition
Here’s the problem with getting rid of standards you find outdated, such as the Ten Commandments or traditional morality: In the chaos that inevitably results from their absence you wind up trying to concoct something…
Teaching Moment on Baltimore Missed
Here’s what so-called “teachable moments” in academia generally miss—the decade those moments are in. “There is a revolution taking place in the United States,” Stanford researchers Travis Bristol and Claude Goldenberg write of their Edutopia…
Diversity Dictators on Campus
Apparently university administrators no longer read George Orwell because they don’t seem to recognize how Orwellian their policies are. “Speech codes are almost never identified as such by the many colleges and universities that impose…