More than a year ago we published Jim Simpson’s masterful report, “Black Criminals, White Victims, and White Guilt.” He examined the facts about black-on-white crime. What’s more, Simpson singled out commentators like CNN’s Marc Lamont Hill, a racial agitator fired by Fox News for defending cop-killers, and spreading misleading statistics about police shootings. Hill idolizes […]
Read the articleLouisiana University has Restrictive Free Speech Code of Only Speaking You Mind for Two Hours a Week
This sounds outrageous, but it’s apparently true at Northwestern State University in Louisiana: The school earned the uncoveted “Speech Code of the Month” from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which just downgraded Northwestern State to its worst speech rating for some provisions in its new “assembly and demonstrations” policy: First, the policy requires students […]
Read the articleAcademics have been arguing for decades that colleges and universities are engines of economic growth. Now they seem to have scientific proof, or do they? “We estimate fixed effects models at the sub-national level between 1950 and 2010 and find that increases in the number of universities are positively associated with future growth of GDP […]
Read the articleWith increasing frequency, it is getting harder and harder for conservative Catholics, no matter how well credentialed they are, to get hired in academia, particularly in Catholic universities. When he was still teaching at SUNY, author Thomas E. Woods, Jr., told me that his enthusiasm for the Latin Mass was met with more hostility in […]
Read the articleEditor’s Note: The original article appeared in the Times of Israel. As yet another indication that the university campus has become “an island of repression in a sea of freedom,” last March a pro-Israel group, Hasbara Fellowships Canada, was barred from participating in a “Social Justice Week” event organized by the Student Association of Durham […]
Read the articleThe Movement for Black Lives (a conglomeration comprised of Black Lives Matter and many other groups) recently garnered media attention for releasing an incendiary manifesto. This manifesto includes references to Israel as an “apartheid state” and “ … a state that practices systematic discrimination … ” A post on Black Lives Matter’s Facebook page describes […]
Read the articleAt the young age of 18, Regis Giles decided that she had enough of seeing headlines about women who were abducted, raped and murdered so she began to motivate women to take the initiative and learn to defend themselves. She started Girls Just Wanna Have Guns and the website quickly exploded. Although the website received […]
Read the articleOnce again, the anti-gun movement has been discredited, this time with a mass killing using a knife in Japan. Within 40 minutes, a young man injured almost 50 mentally disabled patients, killing 19. Satoshi Uematsu broke into the facility around 2 a.m. and supposedly slashed the patients’ necks, although details about the attack have not […]
Read the articleAlthough the liberal media is fawning over the Democratic National Convention, it’s hard to ignore the issues surrounding the event. Bernie Sanders supporters turned out in full force at the Democratic National Convention, causing havoc on the supposedly unified Democratic Party gathering. With the recent email scandal showing that Clinton was favored by the Democratic […]
Read the articleNixing a speech by the former editor who published cartoons of Mohammed is what the vice chancellor of South Africa’s University of Cape Town suggested to the university’s academic freedom committee.
Read the articleThe pedestrians were walking; taxi drivers honking; kids running; metros moving; baristas brewing; businessmen chatting. And it didn’t take long for the city to appear as if it had fully woken up. The sun was a bit slow to rise in 70-degree New York City Wednesday morning as women and men gathered for the all-day […]
Read the articleLaureate University could see its initial public offering (IPO) fall as they’re facing problems with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding their own internal financial controls.
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