Perspectives

Both economists started out in their respective ordeals along very similar paths. But one showed courage, grit and determination, the other cowardice.

To calm the troubled masses of poor students that live in fear that the test they took or the paper they turned in would be returned with scores of red pen marks denoting their mistakes, schools are now eliminating the color red as a correction color.

A professor tuning in to hear AIA executive director Mal Kline’s recent interview on the Jim Bohannon how takes exception, sort of, to the conclusions reached by both the host and the guest.

From Ex Corde Ecclesiae (1990). Although he passed away last weekend, Pope John Paul II continues to speak to generations through the timeless truths in his writings.

It is hard to find a better recent case of political correctness gone insane than what happened at the University of California at Santa Cruz in early March.

Liberals are the first to say that campuses are places that embrace the free and open debate of ideas. Now it would appear there is more ammo to back up the old assertion that this is false.

Instead of putting out false statistics that mask the failure of public education, state officials should be pushing model schools like the American Indian Public Charter School. For the sake of our children, it’s time to be honest and implement what works.

There’s nothing like a war to solidify our nation’s teachers with the far left.

I have had several friends who have taken Women’s Studies courses—and have all regretted it.

The debate about capital punishment on the nation’s campuses is much like the debate about abortion. Only one viewpoint is presented—the politically correct one. It is indicative of the type of tendentious scholarship that is all too common in academia.

Has academia become so politicized that teaching good economics, and using politically sensitive illustrations, can lead to threats, fines, penalties, demotion and worse? It certainly seemed so in early February when Hans-Hermann Hoppe received an egregious letter from the Provost of his university.

This may be America, but it hasn’t stopped one school from broadcasting the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish.