Liberal friends curious about how conservative professors actually teach might consider asking them. That’s what Jeisi Zhao of the Young America’s Foundation did in an interview with George Mason University economist Walter Williams. “I teach…
Perspectives
Detroit’s Choice
Something is actually growing in Detroit, a city that mostly has been in the news for its losses—charter schools, 66 of them. Their growth tracks with a statewide trend, and has the Detroit public schools…
Black Like Rachel
In a way, Rachel Dolezal is a living embodiment of racial progress. In the 1961 book, Black Like Me, white journalist John Howard Griffin pretended to be black in order to show the indignities blacks…
Ronald Reagan: America “is always in the Act of Becoming”
As Ronald Reagan once said: “Some may try and tell us that this is the end of an era. But what they overlook is that in America, every day is a new beginning, and every…
WATCH: Why America is Exceptional
Our Executive Director Mal Kline gives his take on why America is an exceptional nation. This video was recorded for Eagle Forum’s Americaproud program.
UVM’s Bottles Unintended Consequences
Academics really need to study the effects of unintended consequences more often. When the University of Vermont, one of the greenest campuses in one of the greenest states, banned bottled water, the school gave students…
Rebranding and Renaming Tradition
Here’s the problem with getting rid of standards you find outdated, such as the Ten Commandments or traditional morality: In the chaos that inevitably results from their absence you wind up trying to concoct something…
Teaching Moment on Baltimore Missed
Here’s what so-called “teachable moments” in academia generally miss—the decade those moments are in. “There is a revolution taking place in the United States,” Stanford researchers Travis Bristol and Claude Goldenberg write of their Edutopia…
Diversity Dictators on Campus
Apparently university administrators no longer read George Orwell because they don’t seem to recognize how Orwellian their policies are. “Speech codes are almost never identified as such by the many colleges and universities that impose…
Faculty Who Won’t Leave
Tenured faculty may make up an increasingly smaller proportion of the professoriate than in days gone by but they are hanging onto their jobs with both fists. “Tenured faculty age 50 or older can be…