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Princeton University, facing a lawsuit over racial discrimination in college admissions of Asian-Americans, is suing to keep their admissions data private.

The irony: America’s bureaucratic largesse as well as its erosion of property rights and rule of law are affecting the country’s Human Freedom Index, while Hong Kong remained the top-ranked entity due to more free-market ideas.

People without college degrees, or even high school diplomas, appear to understand property rights. Why can’t law school professors? Evidence of the former can be found trend can be found in the number of signs one sees that read, “This house protected by shotgun three nights a week. You guess which three.” Fences and walls […]

The definition of law is being twisted by officials who feel they are above the law, said a Reagan judicial appointee.

Somehow, an anti-Trump cartoon in a student newspaper upset the LGBT community at Northern Illinois University due to mocking the bathroom debate.

The government is not doing a good job at its main responsibility of representing the people, said a college professor from Hillsdale College.

Angela Davis, a former Communist Party USA leader and Black Panther, as well as a former member of FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted, recently spoke at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Her speech, entitled “Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Why Movements for Social Justice Support Palestine,” was far from impartial or fair. Her speech […]

Angela Davis, a former Communist Party member, is no fan of free markets, capitalism and Israel, yet she was an honored speaker at George Washington University. A recent event held at the Washington, D.C.-based George Washington University was sponsored by the campus’s Feminist Student Union and Black Student Union. This is how they described Angela […]

That alone is a newsflash. Usually, college presidents approach big government with their hands out. At the Cato Institute on March 30, 2017, Mark Zupan, president of Alfred University, noted that trust in government is at an all-time low. It currently runs at 19 percent, down from 66 in the 1960s. Dr. Zupan is the […]

Occasionally, one of our more free market economists in academe latches onto an idea that moves us away from collectivism. Unfortunately, the impact is usually marginal. Such an idea is “reference pricing,” or competitive pricing for a handful of medical procedures that some self-insuring companies, such as Safeway, are experimenting with. “We estimated the potential […]

President Trump’s budget “blueprint” for the U. S. Department of Education recommends a 13 percent decrease in spending for the agency, but provides few details on how he will reach that goal. Nevertheless, the details that the Trump Administration does provide have already drawn the ire of the education establishment. The blueprint promises to preserve […]

When advocates of immigration controls suggest that legal immigrants and their children “assimilate” to the United States, they usually mean acquiring a working knowledge of the U. S. Constitution. Unfortunately, it may be easier for these kids to acquire a working knowledge of gang warfare. “There are problems with assimilating to the gang culture,” Paul […]