The Center for American Progress (CAP) continues to buck its so-called “progressive” label with each report and analysis it publishes.
News
Ramadan: Lent in a hurry
Maybe Catholic colleges and universities would be more emphatic about Church traditions such as Lent if they thought they were similar to Islamic rites such as Ramadan.
Civil Rights & Wrongs
Federal speech codes could only be the beginning.
Black History Partially Reconstructed
With the unveiling of a controversial memorial to slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, it is useful to explore the black history that academia ignores.
Student’s Rights SaVEd
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has put out a scathing report and analysis on the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination (also known as “Campus SaVE”) Act that is up for consideration in both chambers of Congress.
Covering (for) the president
Post pundit and Georgetown prof sounds presidential.
Left-leaning Lecture Halls
Universities like to think of their lecture series as extensions of the education that students get in their classrooms. Unfortunately, they usually are.
Public Pension Time Bomb
Academic economists rarely fret over who will pay for public employee pensions, perhaps because many of them get them and most of us pay, quite a bit, into them.
The Subprime Of A Columbia Economist
When we first encountered Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz’s assertion that the Iraq War led to the sub-prime mortgage crisis, we found the assertion a bit of a reach. It turns out that there may have been more to it than met the eye.
No Waiver Left Behind
The granting of waivers seems to favor states that have voted for the current administration in the last election, at least for the past decade.