A Tribe of Her Own
As presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren continues to find her people among the Democratic Party base, the senior U.S. Senator from Massachusetts has been slinging government […]
Education
Manipulating Science in the Data Age
Who are you going to believe—my academic paper/editorial/meme or your lying eyes? It’s a pressing question in today’s world of artificial intelligence, machine learning, faked […]
Want to Fix the Universities? Here Are Two Options
Once upon a time, long, long ago—in May 2005, in fact—I wrote an essay for The New Criterion with the optimistic title “Retaking the University: […]
Cuomo Is Wrong to Give Free Tuition to Gold Star Families
Recently, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo made a strategic retreat. In response to well-publicized criticism of the decision of the state’s Democratic-controlled legislature to kill […]
The Great Cull . . . or the Long Boom?
When people look back on world history 100 years from now, what will they see? It is reasonable to think they will see a global […]
Who Will Convert Us? The Life of James V. Schall, S.J.
At the passing of a priest, age 91, who was also a profound scholar and inspiring teacher, one expects to see praise of his dozens […]
An Answer to the Cost of College and Community Collapse: Community Colleges
PITTSBURGH—When the Pittsburgh Pirates opened their season two weeks ago at PNC Park, Nathan Sibley, a York County, Pennsylvania, kid who struggled in high school […]
The Downward Spiral of Post-Secondary Education
[fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] [fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] Something is seriously rotten in our education establishment, especially […]
U Need a Shine?
[fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] [fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] In the 1940s, a wave of automation threatened an […]
Kamala Harris’ Hair-Raising, Tax-Raising Plan
[fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] [fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] When the American Federation of Teachers endorsed Hillary Clinton […]
Why Can’t We Ask the Hard Questions About Education?
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Student Council
[fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] [fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) wants your teenager to […]
Your Kid Goes to Yale? So What?
[fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] [fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] I have told the following to numerous audiences: I’m […]
Socialists Don’t Really Believe in Socialism
[fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] [fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] Can we dispel, once and for all, the idea […]
Coming Home From College
[fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] [fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] Every year, many thousands of American parents find that […]
A Million-Dollar Punch
President Trump on March 2 announced he would issue an executive order addressing free speech on college and university campuses. The order itself hasn’t been […]
Decline and Fall: Classics Edition
For the study of classics, it is (if we may adapt Dickens) the best of times and the worst of times. It is the best […]
The University of Diversity Is Destroying America
America’s educational system is breaking, and the primary culprits are the diversity bureaucracy, now an industrial strength special-interest group that grows more powerful and more […]
Is It Time to Ban Kids from Smartphones and Social Media?
What would you say about a widely available consumer product that is highly addictive, facilitates and perhaps causes deeply anti-social behavior, leads to loneliness and […]
Duke University: Polyglot Boarding House
Middlebury College is widely renowned for their top-quality, immersive foreign language learning programs. Central to the Middlebury curriculum is the infamous language pledge, a promise […]