Half a century ago, veteran actor Robert Preston revived his career playing con man Harold Hill trying to sell River City on his think system for playing the Minuet in G. A think tank at Bard College seems to be applying that approach to Twentieth Century economics.
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The Muslim Brotherhood Unveiled
The media may be in “see no evil” mode about the Muslim Brotherhood but this fraternity is hardly a benign force wherever it is massed in significant numbers, whether that be in the country of Egypt or on an American college campus.
Repeating Mid East History
28 years ago I was invited to lunch with Hosni Mubarak, the then new president of Egypt.
Liberty in Law School
Law school students may not only be getting an incomplete view of American history but a misleading notion of the Law of the Land, a dissident professor shows in a new book.
College: Education’s Dead End
The problem with studies on college that come out of colleges is that they tend to stress the importance of higher education, even when their own data do not support that conclusion.
Iran vs. Iranians
Dating back to the 1979 Iranian revolution that lifted Ayatollah Khomeini to power and boldly challenged President Jimmy Carter, the US-Iranian relationship has been strained, to say the least.
Lessons From Chilean History
Is there a government in recent history that inherited runaway government spending, massive debt, entitlements and interference in the economy and turned it around? Yes, Chile in 1973.
Queer Ecology @ The MLA
A panel on “Queer Ecology” was featured at the 2011 Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA).
Striking Oil
Taxing the oil industry and refusing access to important U.S. shale reserves would drive up both the Federal government’s debt and the U.S. unemployment rate, according to Kyle Isakower of the American Petroleum Institute.
Impending Obama-NEA Chill?
A new move by the Obama Administration may actually move education reform further than No Child Left Behind ever did.