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Professors Deconstruct Obama’s Muscular Presidency

, Spencer Irvine

Law professors Jonathan Turley of George Washington University and Nicholas Rosenkranz of Georgetown slammed President Obama’s “muscular presidency” as dangerously unconstitutional. The Federalist Society hosted these speakers in a panel discussion entitled, “Suspension of Laws:…

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ObamaCare’s Contraception Mandate

, Spencer Irvine

Law professors John Eastman of Chapman University and Martin Lederman of Georgetown debated the religious implications of ObamaCare’s contraception mandate during a panel discussion at a recent Federalist Society conference. With the passage of the…

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Beyond Rosy Jobs Forecasts

, Malcolm A. Kline

It’s one thing when a right-wing think tank scores the economy under a Democratic president. It’s quite another when a left-wing think tank gives it a failing grade. “The Great Recession officially ended in June…

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Is College Worth It? Nope

, Spencer Irvine

  George Mason economics professor Bryan Caplan, at the libertarian think tank Cato Institute, said that college is not worth it for both taxpayers and for low-performing students coming out of high school. He examined…

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Where Area Studies Err

, Spencer Irvine

There’s a very good chance that everything you’ve learned in your Middle East studies class is wrong. Haroon Ullah, currently on the policy planning staff of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s Policy Planning Staff…

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Searching for History’s Vindication

, Christopher Manion

The recent unpleasantness in eastern Ukraine recalls a nagging truth: Wars always bring unintended consequences, and Americans have seen plenty of them, firsthand. In 1916, Woodrow Wilson won reelection on the slogan, “He Kept Us…

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Anti-Semitism on Campus 2014

, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin

As soon as an African American student at San Jose State University who was racially harassed and bullied by his dormitory roommates came forward, university, county, and state officials began an investigation. Within days, prosecutors…

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Religious Progressives’ Future

, Spencer Irvine

At the Brookings Institute, a center-left think tank, Washington Post contributor E.J. Dionne, theological professor Gary Dorrien, and Columbia University professor Dorian Warren discussed the future of religious progressives in American society and how it…

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Administrators Not Created Equal

, Spencer Irvine

In The Chronicle of Higher Education, writer Don Troop highlighted the current controversy at the University of Michigan concerning how much the university pays its administrators. At Ann Arbor in 2005, they paid less than…

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Recent Articles

Norfolk School Disses Parent’s Rights

, Malcolm A. Kline

A concerned parent in Norfolk who got no response from her daughter’s school decided to send a recorder to school to determine whether the nine-year-old girl was being bullied. Now the mom faces legal pushback for exercising her parental rights.

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Left Targets Gorka @ UNC, Misses

, Malcolm A. Kline

In a column distributed by the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, Jay Schalin and Shannon Watkins give us an interesting snapshot of the campus protest movement at the University of North Carolina. “On…

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