“The taxes we rely on most have marginal excess rates of 40 to 50 percent.”—Duke University economist Chris Conover at the Cato Institute on October 13, 2010
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
John Dewey & Soviet Progressives
It turns out that progressive educator John Dewey’s books were not only influential in the United States.
Welfare As We Want It
A historian at Penn makes the case that education is a welfare benefit then goes on to virtually endorse it as such.
Tenured Weathermen
For decades, media elites and academics alike have accepted the accounts that veterans of the anti-Vietnam War movement gave of themselves, particularly when those vets occupied academic berths.
BC Goes Republican Briefly
How can a deep blue campus go purple? By a statistical fluke.
Baby Rebuts Peter Singer
For once, a left-wing speaker on the college lecture circuit got heckled and by a most unusual heckler.
Phantom Budget Cuts
Berkeley prof bemoans phantom budget cuts.
Generally & Particularly Irate
“Americans are not only against government spending in the abstract but against each particular instance of it in the last two years.”—Claremont McKenna scholar William Voegeli at Hillsdale College Capitol Hill lunch on October 1, 2010
Academic Amnesia on the 1990s
In even-numbered years, political science professors are frequently called upon by the media to offer their thoughts on national elections, although they may not be as well-versed as they should be on history, of even the more recent variety.
Education Department Grows By Fiat
The president just expanded the U. S. Department of Education by executive order.