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In Sickness and In Health
Critics in both the media and academia who point to exploding costs and denial of care as maladies afflicting the U. S. health care system are getting part of the story right.
Bailout Born in Academia?
The latest government attempt to kill the free market in the United States—the federal bailout of Wall Street—may have been born and bred in that incubator for socialist scemes—the Ivory Tower.
North To Alaska
The late Troy University professor Christopher T. Warden, the former editorial page editor of Investor’s Business Daily, explains why gas prices are so high in a recent Accuracy in Academia meeting at the National Press Club.
North to Alaska
Troy University professor Christopher T. Warden, the former editorial page editor of Investor’s Business Daily, explains why gas prices are so high in a recent Accuracy in Academia meeting at the National Press Club.
Deceptions of My Father
Even when they are trying to be even-handed, academics show their biases. Case in point: a double book review in the Chronicle of Higher Education that seeks to equate the fathers of the two presidential candidates.
Middle East Apologetics
In a recent panel at the Brookings Institution, foreign policy analysts proposed a new strategy for dealings between the United States and the Middle East.
Colorado Quotas In Action
Many public colleges and universities in Colorado use racial preferences in undergraduate admissions to increase minority enrollment.
Colorado Quotas
In rmarks to the Independence Institute today, Linda Chavez discusses the presence of racial, ethnic, and gender preferences in Colorado’s public education, contracting, and employment programs.
Star Wars In Nonfiction
Power lost . . . communication down . . . millions die from starvation . . . the United States has just been hit by an Electro-Magnetic Pulse, or EMP. This is not a new Lucas or Spielberg script, a fantasy concocted in the minds of a sci-fi junkie.
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Right Turn in Academe?
A writer from The New Yorker actually noticed a political bias in academe: She claims it tilts right. Actually, Jane Mayer’s article, “How a Handful of Wealthy Reactionaries Tugged Academe to the Right,” which appeared…
After Pressure, Mount St. Mary’s President Resigns
Simon Newman resigned, effectively immediately, after his leadership came under fire due to firing two professors, demoting a provost and pressure struggling freshmen students to leave class. Photo by opie0429
The Paranoid View of History Infects Oberlin
This article was originally posted on Times of Israel. “i-Semitism,” wrote Stephen Eric Bronner, author of the engaging book A Rumor About The Jews, “is the stupid answer to a serious question: How does history…
Safe Space for Students at a Bowdoin College Tequila-Themed Party
Seriously, since some people wore sombreros at the party?! Photo by jaymiek Photo by jaymiek
40 Columbia University Faculty Members Sign Onto Anti-Israel BDS Petition
Not surprising, anymore. Forty Columbia University faculty have signed a petition calling for the school to “divest from corporations that supply, perpetuate, and profit from a system that has subjugated the Palestinian people.” The faculty…
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“Hate Speech” Should be Banned, say anti-Ben Shapiro Protesters at CSU-LA
Apparently, they don’t know hate speech is protected under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Let’s hope they’re not paying exorbitant out-of-state tuition for their college education. Editor’s Note: The protests occurred at Cal-State…
Emory Student Op-Ed: Illegal Immigrants’ Access to Fed Student Aid is like Civil Rights Movement
What?! “In honor of this event, 25 undocumented students and 70 of their allies integrated college classrooms at three of the five public universities in Georgia that deny admission to undocumented students, in a courageous…
Some Maryland College Students Want Social Justice Activism Taught in Class
Sounds like a waste of time at the University of Maryland-College Park: During a student forum held Thursday at the University of Maryland, Black Lives Matter advocates argued that activism should be taught in the…
Calling Women ‘Blonde’ Immobilizes Women, Diversity Conference says
Huh?! This is serious, apparently: Missouri State University is hosting a Statewide Collaborative Diversity Conference, during which it will teach students that labeling women as ‘blonde’ is a form of identity theft that immobilizes them….
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Defending Our republican Constitution
Randy Barnett, the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at the Georgetown University Law Center, director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution, and an author of eleven books, has a book that should be…