Can it be that economics has its reputation as the dismal science because of the way it is taught? Economist Peter G. Klein, in his appreciation of the founder of the Austrian School of Economics—Carl Menger— indicates that may be the case.
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The Al-Jazeera of Psychotic Killers
Phil Rosenthal of the Chicago Tribune notes the strange decision by NBC to put its NBC News logo and the NBC peacock, “in all its multicolored glory,” on the videos and photos that it released of Virginia Tech mass murderer Cho Seung Hui.
Grumpy Old Men
Institutions of higher learning, designed to be the most temperate pillars of society, produce some of America’s most intemperate and unsubstantiated rhetoric; and the two Granddaddies of grandiloquence have to be Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn.
VT Elegy
For many of us, the bloody horrors at Virginia Tech served as a sudden and painful reminder that we live in a fallen world where man is capable of unthinkable evil.
University of Southern Indiana Turnaround
A professor with a conscience helps keep a radical speaker, who supports violence in pursuit of “animal rights,” off campus.
Education Orientation
As battles rage across the country in school systems over sexual orientation policies, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) meeting put in their two cents worth with a late afternoon session on Saturday titled “Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual , and Transgender Issues in Schools: The Changing Landscape in Legal and Practical Terms-Are You Ready?”
Kansas Wesleyan Student Defended
In a case that epitomizes the need for greater academic freedom protections on America’s campuses, a student at Kansas Wesleyan University was charged with violating the University’s honor code for introducing a version of the Academic Bill of Rights in his student government without citing the source of the bill.
The Multicultural Elite
Harrisburg, Pa.—Every now and then, someone from the multiculturalism industry admits that the battle for campus market share has been won and all that is left is to divide up the spoils.
The Higher Education Hobgoblin
There is a cottage industry in the U.S. (located mostly in Washington, DC, but with satellite plants scattered around the country) that produces hand-wringing policy reports saying that America faces a crisis unless it finds a way to put more students into and through college.
Day of Silence Returns
Every year pro-homosexual students around the nation hijack public schools for the day by remaining silent, refusing to participate in class.