Higher Education
To Solidify Higher-Education Finance, Return Power And Money To The States
American higher education is in a crunch and the demise of federalism has contributed to this dilemma.
January 19, 2017
Higher Education
Sad To Say, The ‘Chicago Principles’ Defending Academic Freedom Do Not Go Far Enough
It is only in the light of the simple superiority of truth-seeking and the indispensability of freedom for such seeking that the possibilities and limitations of our other freedoms—moral, political, and economic—come into proper focus.
December 30, 2016
Higher Education
A Marxist Education in ‘Hypersensitivity’ As A Cause Of Violence on American Campuses
The deepest effect of the Left’s success at transforming teaching and learning into consciousness raising and hypersensitivity is missed if we dismiss it as merely in the service of graduating a fresh batch of “little snowflakes” every May.
December 27, 2016
Higher Education
Wise Beyond Their Years: Student Newspaper Slams Princeton’s “Politicized Curriculum” Proposal
Over the course of the last few years, Americans have watched with interest and dismay as a growing number of their higher education institutions have descended into censorship and intolerance. From “safe spaces” to “trigger warnings” to “micro-aggressions,” our universities appear to be striving to become the least tolerant of our institutions.
November 29, 2016
Higher Education
The University Of California’s Censor In Sheep’s Clothing
Give them a dog-and-pony show. Praise free speech at the same time that you seek to justify learning-killing restrictions on same.
November 2, 2016
Higher Education
College Degrees — In Double Standards — At UW-Madison
Over the last few weeks, the First Amendment has gotten schooled at the flagship public university of Wisconsin. The Orwellian lesson being taught its students is this: All have equal First Amendment rights. But some have rights that are more equal than others.
October 31, 2016
Higher Education
Is There A Future For Freedom? Our Universities Will Decide
The suppression of free speech and debate is not being imposed by “barbarians outside the gates,” but by the universities themselves.
September 26, 2016
Higher Education
Restoring the Trust for Families and Working-Age Americans
Almost half of those who enroll in college fail to graduate and of those who do graduate, 36 percent show little to no increase in the critical thinking and writing skills that a degree is supposed to signify.
September 19, 2016
Higher Education
Will The University Of Chicago Shake Up The World Once Again?
The University of Chicago appears intent on shaking up the world once more. But this time it aims not at a particular intellectual discovery but rather at preserving the very conditions of discovery itself: the freedom of the mind.
August 31, 2016
Local Government
The Blaze makes a case for Article V Convention of States
Mark Meckler makes a compelling case for convening an Article V Convention of States to rein in the federal government’s excesses. Meckler is the president of Citizens for Self-Governance, which founded the Convention of States Project.
August 3, 2016
Higher Education
Report: The College Board dumps historical accuracy, embraces ideology
If the College Board has its way, this country’s core principles of political and religious liberty, limited government, and free enterprise likely won’t even make it to childhood. They will be strangled in their cradles, courtesy of those to whom we’ve entrusted the education of our children.
July 29, 2016
Higher Education
Scapegoat Or Scandal? When Universities Suffer ‘Bad Press’
Free debate is increasingly stifled on campus due to the demands of political correctness
July 21, 2016