“We benefit from bringing low skilled workers” into the United States, Dartmouth economist Ethan Lewis claimed at the Cato Institute but admitted that “we may be raising inequality.”
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
Hollywood: Swastika & Sickle
A Harvard scholar has unearthed archival evidence of the relationship of Hollywood producers to the Nazi government in the 1930s but most scholars stop short of implicating Left-wing icons in chronicling the run-up to World War II.
Futility of Freshmen Seminars
Higher education may never be more irrelevant than when it tries hard to be relevant. In the Chronicle of Higher Education, Dan Berrett surveys a trio of seminars that await incoming freshmen at the University of Richmond (UR).
Supplement Zinn With Facts
Purdue president Mitch Daniels’ efforts to keep Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States out of Indiana public schools while serving as governor of the state has drawn a predictable academic outcry.
Alger Hiss’s Teachable Moments
The tendency of academic elites to embrace America’s enemies is not a new one. Indeed, the academic imprimatur on any person, place or thing should give one pause.
AIA Endorses FIRE Letter
New regulations from the U. S. Department of Education (DOE) are threatening to cripple the First Amendment on American college campuses. Accuracy in Academia has signed onto a letter that the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is sending to the agency.
New Worlds To Conquer
Education activists, including the community organizer in the White House, look at the ruin that public education has become and want to expand it.
Philosophy Departments Avoid Resuscitation
A little bible college in Los Angeles may revive the, at best, moribund and musty discipline of philosophy and academic philosophers don’t like it one bit.
Elegy for Elegance
Newt Gingrich has described Europe as in a state of “elegant decay.” What happens when they lose the elegance?
Diversity: The New Segregation
Perhaps it takes someone educated in the Civil Rights era to see the startling similarities between yesterday’s segregationists and today’s diversity officers, although the fact that both claim to advance “the common good” should raise suspicions.