Due in part to the current recession, this federal student aid program is one of the fastest-growing federal programs to date, but it has failed the poor students of America, the John William Pope Center for Higher Education found.
Articles By: Spencer Irvine
Why not the best?
John Howard’s book America’s Best Colleges, Really? is a must-read for any American who is concerned about the future of America.
Unintended Consequences Of Regulation
Edward Conard’s book Unintended Consequences attacks the myths surrounding modern economics.
von Mises Remembered
Daniel Sanchez, editor of the Ludwig von Mises Institute newsletter “The Free Market,”does a great job in remembering this great economist.
Aid to Nowhere
Currently, the economic crisis is crunching students across the U.S. as they face a crisis: should they go into debt to get a four-year college degree and in the process receive federal student aid?
PBS: Online Reeducation Camp
According to a recent Special Report from Accuracy in Media’s Center for Investigative Journalism and Accuracy in Academia, PBS’s spending and bloated budget have ballooned to upwards of $450 million.
Channeling Gulliver in China
As Dominic Tierney, an associate professor at Swathmore, puts it, it is now up to the U.S. to see and deal with China as a small Lilliputian threat through a giant “Brobdingnagian lens.”
Return of Peter King
As the upcoming fall elections approach, much of the noise and criticism of Rep. Peter King (R-NY) and his hearings on the growing threat of Muslim radicalization have died down as the media has moved on to other news.
Are Russia and Syria more than civil?
The failure to reach an accord between the Obama Administration and the Russian government should not have been a surprise because the Syrian conflict is viewed differently in the West than in Russia, David Satter, the former Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times, alleges.
Giving George His Due
He may be on Mount Rushmore and on the dollar bills we spend regularly, but a startling number of Americans, particularly young ones, do not know who George Washington is.