The Young America’s Foundation has once again compiled an invaluable compendium of this season’s commencement speakers and found, once again, that they overwhelmingly represent one point of view. Moreover, in our review of 127 of…
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
Sex Toy Story
Show and Tell no longer has the same harmless meaning it once had. “Parents of students at Encinal High School in Alameda want a teacher fired after they say he sent them home with an…
Academics Fix Another Problem
How many academics does it take to fix America’s criminal justice system? Twenty. That’s how many participated in a National Research Council (NRC) study of U.S. prisons and their effect on inner cities. The study…
Common Core’s Slow Collapse
As a public service, we try to track the progress, or lack thereof, of the latest top-down education reform concocted by elites and insiders—Common Core. We are aided immeasurably by the Heartland Institute which publishes…
Universities’ Tax Exemption at Risk
There is much more at stake in the debate over same-sex marriage than wedding cakes. Namely, the tax-exempt status of universities is now at risk. “The most notable exchange during the argument last month in…
Courts Find Academics Unexceptional
They may be the big men and women on campus but off campus they are just men and women. “The claim of legal status depends on the prior claim that academics are special, even exceptional,…
The Living Wage Diaspora
Believe it or not there is actual evidence that illegal immigration does depress wages for the native-born but you are not likely to hear about it in the multitude of classes that touch on various…
Skeptical Academics & Questionable Research
During the final decade of the Cold War, President Reagan urged Americans to “trust but verify” when engaged in arms control negotiations with the Soviet Union. When digesting academic research, it might be a good…
Is Higher Education a Leisure Pool?
A group called College Rank has helpfully compiled a list of colleges with the best leisure pools in academe, some replete with lazy rivers. “Recreational facilities and amenities have become a major part of the…
Anti-Semitism on Campus 2015
It’s sad that we have to do an annual recap on this topic. It’s even sadder that we could do more frequent updates. The Amcha Intiative at the University of California, led by the estimable…