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Is College Worthwhile?
Billionaires like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg have more in common than their entrepreneurial skills: They were all college dropouts.
Bias @ Bowdoin Documented
For years, claims of liberal biases on college campuses have run rampant. Peter Wood and Michael Toscano of the National Association of Scholars set out to test these claims in a thorough investigation of Bowdoin College.
Federally Regulating Free Speech
This goes way beyond the Supreme Court ruling that to constitute illegal sexual harassment, sexual advances or other verbal or physical conduct must be severe and pervasive, and create a hostile environment.
Gov’t caused 2008 collapse
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.
The Sound of Silence
A 90-page report about leftist bias at the University of California has stirred controversy among academics and other interested parties, but so far, the targets of the study have chosen silence as their weapon of choice.
Soledad O’Brien @ Harvard
How does a media bias translate to an academic one? When a practitioner of the former gets to ply her trade in the Ivory Tower.
“Thought Leaders” Extol China Schools
None questioned the source of the information on China’s educational progress—the Chinese government itself.
Academic bias at IRS?
Before explaining why conservative groups seem to have been targeted by the IRS, an agency official explained to congressmen why colleges and universities got a pass on taxes that they did owe.
Academics Discover Resilience
In the latest issue of The Chronicle Review, various scholars try to come to grips with the terrorist attacks in Boston.
Book Review
Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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