“It All Depends on Context” In The Spectator.com, Peter W. Wood refers to the song “Auld Lang Syne,” meaning “for the sake of old times., a phrase hardly in need of explanation on New Year’s Eve. Robert Byrns wrote Auld Lang Syne in 1788, after reportedly hearing it from an old man. Mr. Wood wonders, […]
Science Prevails over Politics
Got Milk? Amongst the bad news rippling through our Christmas cheer is some good news. Lawmakers this week are finally trying to repair the damage from a misguided attempt to improve childhood nutrition, reports James Freeman in the WSJ. Who says science doesn’t ultimately prevail over politics? It’s taking far too long, but the unintended […]
Bastions of Higher Learning vs Partisan Politics
By pla2na @Adobe Stock Colleges to Lose Tax Breaks/Funding over Anti-Semitism? If you haven’t heard of the Harvard Corp., you’re about to. Read on. Last week, Harvard Corp. issued a condescending statement affirming its support for Harvard President Claudine Gay. The corporation is Harvard’s governing body, which wrote that Ms. Gay “is the right leader to […]
The Smear Campaign Against Homeschooling
At The Spectator, Amber Duke discusses a recent series by The Washington Post on homeschooling. Duke explains that while the series began with data-driven journalism, it has since become a way to smear homeschooling. She writes: The Washington Post’s coverage of homeschooling, though, quickly turned dark. In early December, the paper published an article claiming that […]
The Collegiate Mask Slips
Violating Codes of Conduct Friction at U/Penn illustrates the growing divide between those inside and outside elite universities, such as the sharp decline in confidence in America about higher education. Makes you wonder, as James Freeman does in the WSJ, are robust and consistent protections for free speech about to make a comeback on campus? […]
Common Sense: Uncommon and Controversial
Sandbagged at TED Colleges and universities are not the only ones grabbing the headlines. There is plenty amuck in non-academic arenas that claim to support the “civil deliberation of ideas but mostly provide safe spaces for progressives who have no interest in engaging viewpoints that dissent from their own,” exposes Jason L. Riley in the […]
White Men and Women Should Avoid Universities
Since Paul Craig Roberts wrote the piece quoted below, the Supreme Court delivered a heavy blow to racism in academia by striking down affirmative action as unconstitutional. In response, universities and their progressive backers in politics are finding other ways to tip the scales on academic admission. Recently, Massachusetts gave guidance to schools hoping to […]
A Way to Fix Our Universities
The Moral Decay of Higher Education There is a lot of rot going on, and heading that list is what has been going on at many elite universities since October 7. Although the public at large is shocked at the butchery, rape, torture, and mutilation of some 1,000 Israeli civilians by Hamas murderers,” campus craziness […]
Hillsdale College: What College Is Meant to Be
UPDATE 10.23.23: In an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, Larry P. Arnn, the 12th President of Hillsdale College, defends the institution from some recent criticism of its handling of “free speech.” Arnn writes: The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression has issued a “warning” about freedom of speech at Hillsdale College. In doing so, […]
Don’t Tread on America’s Children
The politics of the last few years have seemed to focus on America’s children more than at any time in recent history. From what’s taught in schools, and whether or not schools are even open, to what kids can say or do at school, there have been many controversies. At the Ron Paul Institute for […]
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