Articles by Spencer Irvine

The theology at the Catholic University of America, the only college in the United States chartered by the Vatican, may be doctrinally sound but its anthropology courses border on the pagan.

Younger people are staying on federal  disability insurance rolls longer than in previous years, leading to bigger government payouts overall.

A recent study concluded that colleges’ teaching preparation is an “industry of mediocrity.”

A bipartisan research council found that American students are just average.

A Cleveland State University study found that hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, leads to economic growth in the regions where it is used.

There is an interesting split on the Left over the Obama Administration’s Common Core education reforms.

Speakers at a recent forum on online radicalization of Muslims sponsored by the New America Foundation proved once again that denial is not just a river in Egypt.

 If America is a free-market system, then why does it impose a central planning model on humanitarian aid?, a George Mason University economist asks.

The internet has increased the “lone wolf phenomena” and little to nothing is being done to counter online jihadist websites and propaganda.

Perhaps for the first time, a Bush Administration official has admitted that there were problems with the last president’s No Child Left Behind (NCLB) education reforms.

John Allison’s book, The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure: Why Pure Capitalism is the World Economy’s Only Hope, skewers the federal government.

None questioned the source of the information on China’s educational progress—the Chinese government itself.