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If free-market economist Milton Friedman could see what is happening at the University of Chicago—his home base for many years—the late Nobel laureate would probably turn over in his grave several times.

A trio of academics have done a great service (yes, you read that here) in doing what few, if any, VIPs in our nation’s capital will do, namely, pointing up the negative effects of China’s economic policies.

Once again, American elites agitated for a revolution abroad, then looked upon the achievement of same as the last word on the subject.

With unemployment at record levels, guess what academic economists from coast to coast are devoting their energies to studying?

At a recent Heritage Foundation event, several distinguished lawyers and law experts had an exciting and at times contentious panel debate over the possibility of the U.S. Supreme Court putting the case of Fisher vs. University of Texas , which involves racial considerations in college admissions, on the docket.

In a recent study, academic economists with impressive credentials put their collective talents to work to determine what the average sports fan has learned over a lifetime of pursuing that hobby.

Abroad and at home, on campus and off, the Muslim Brotherhood is an increasingly visible, yet enigmatic, presence in the world.

A new report to be issued in January by the USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future predicts that most newspapers will be dead in five years.

One of the trends that’s recently taken hold in academia is the focus on deconstructing/or and elevating pop culture icons into objects worthy of serious academic study.

If colleges and universities look hopelessly bureaucratic from the outside, the view from inside is even worse.

The governor of Texas, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, got a first-hand taste of what college life is like for conservative students on a foray into an Ames, Iowa coffee shop.

Some observers such as your servant have been dismissed for reading and relating the anonymous reviews found on Rate My Professors.com.