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
Local Government
Is the Declaration Of Independence based on a lie?
If we hope to preserve liberty as well as equality, we should take seriously Lincoln’s admonition and restore required study of the Declaration and Constitution at all levels of schooling—not simply in Louisiana, but nationwide.
June 30, 2016
Higher Education
Texas College: “Judge — And Fund — Us By Our Results”
American workers continue to suffer from a sluggish economy.
June 26, 2016
Higher Education
‘Teaching for social justice’ spurs campus censorship
'40 percent of millennials' today approve of censorship, far more than Gen Xers (27 percent), Boomers (24 percent), and Silents (12 percent).
May 31, 2016
Higher Education
Higher education and the shape of things to come
On top of this enrollment drop, state lawmakers have threated to cut the school’s funding, while nearly $2 million in donor pledges have been rescinded. I, for one, hoped that the situation at Mizzou would restore sanity on our college campuses. Other universities might see the writing on the wall and get back to the real business of higher education.
May 26, 2016