Herbert Hoover’s posthumously published chronicle promises to be a game changer, whether universities ignore it or not.
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
In Search of Builders
If industry is impossible without infrastructure, one wonders what difference roads make when there is nowhere to go.
Ramadan’s Return
When we last wrote of controversial Mid-East Studies scholar Tariq Ramadan, he was set to arrive in the United States to teach at Notre Dame on a newly minted visa that the last presidential administration had denied him.
LA Story
“The Los Angeles Unified School District is being sued by 14 mothers whose children were allegedly sexually abused by a former district elementary school teacher, who is being held on a $23-milion-bond and has been charged with 23 counts of lewd acts on children.”—CNN by way of the American School Board Journal
Work-based Self-esteem
“Students build self-esteem through the confidence acquired as their work improves their results.”—Douglas B. Reeves, founder of The Leadership and Learning Center
If You Build It
Leave it to an academic to find intellectual underpinnings in the president’s dismissal of businessmen everywhere—those who start small businesses as well as those who preside over large ones.
Searching for Budget Cuts
The Left frequently accuses the Right of pursuing phantoms. Nevertheless, the political Left has pursued a few elusive targets of its own, particularly on the academic side.
Not A Doctor Joke
In a jaw-dropping story in the New York Times, the Association of American Medical Colleges warns that ObamaCare is squeezing doctors out of practice–just in time for the swell in Baby Boomer patients.—the Family Research Council
Obama @ UChi
In his last academic post the president was even more aloof than the average academic, according to one of his colleagues there.
Back to School Supplies
A list of supplies for either gender that you are unlikely to find on campus.