Common Core State Standards, a top-to-bottom federal government education curriculum, is a relative unknown among academics, college faculty and professors in higher education. A joint survey, headed by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), discovered that…
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The Case Against Gorsuch: Things Fall Apart
Well, the best and the brightest on the Left are amassing their forces for a full-scale frontal assault on President Trump’s first Supreme Court nomination. The problem for them is, they don’t have much ammunition….
Middlebury’s Muddled Mission
Academia today abounds in ironies, although, more often than not, the irony is lost on the denizens of academe itself. By now, the mobbing of conservative scholar Charles Murray at Middlebury College in Vermont has…
Universities Celebrated Socialist ‘International Women’s Day’ on Social Media
A good round-up from USA Today on the major universities celebrating ‘International Women’s Day’ on social media, ranging from Harvard University to Georgetown University to Texas A&M: Happy #InternationalWomensDay! HMS celebrates women in medicine and science…
‘A Day Without a Woman’ Strike Promotes the Liberal Idea that Women are Helpless
A great op-ed from the Daily Signal which counters the liberal narrative, also running rampant in academic circles, that women are helpless and need government assistance in all things: Here are some facts that belie the…
Walter E. Williams Wins Bradley Prize for Work on Free Markets
From the Bradley Foundation’s press release: Milwaukee, WI – Walter E. Williams, Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University, is one of four recipients of the 2017 Bradley Prize. The honor recognizes individuals of…
The Millennial Morass of ‘Free Stuff’
Jesse Waters might be accused of cherry-picking low information millennials for his popular ambush interview segments on Fox News. The sad thing is, he doesn’t have to. “During the primaries, more than 80 percent of…
Betsy DeVos Pledged to Protect Free Speech at Schools
If U. S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos came to the Conservative Political Action Conference in order to establish her street cred with conservatives, she probably succeeded. “I am, perhaps, the first person in America…
Hillsdale President Visits CPAC, Gives Millennials a Primer on Taxation
College students who trekked to this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) got a civics lesson they were probably unaccustomed to receiving, unless they go to Hillsdale. “Do you know that we make about twenty…
Kellyanne Conway Won’t Play the Victim Card
The media would like to paint presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway as a termagant. She is anything but. “I view myself as the product of my choices not as the victim of my circumstances,” she said…