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Topic: George Leef
Mandating College Applications To Fill Enrollment Shortage
In the private sector, when businessmen find they’ve lost their market for a product, they produce something else: That’s why we don’t see manual typewriters anymore. When the government adopts an industry, it tries a…
Have College Degrees Become Obsolete?
This is a question being asked on both sides of the Ivy-covered walls.
Free Speech Hour @ UMass Amherst
The free speech policy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst brings to mine an axiom of the late, great author M. Stanton Evans, which he dubbed “Evans Law of Inadequate Paranoia.”
“Hate Speech” Not Covered By First Amendment
Some of us become First Amendment absolutists after decades of watching attempts by both the political right and left to find exceptions to it.
Taxing The Rich on Campus
It turns out that the House Republican tax plan actually does tax the rich, at least in academia. “One is the proposal for a 20 percent excise tax on employee compensation over $1 million at…
Colleges Try to Get Rid of Inconvenient Professors
Our friend George Leef wrote an insightful piece on how some college professors are working against their own in the name of political correctness and feminism: Consider Professor Dennis Gouws of Springfield College in Massachusetts….
College Bias Response Teams Chill Free Speech
Our friend George Leef discussed how many people heard of disruptive protests at Middlebury College, but not about campus bias response teams suppressing free speech in the name of tolerance and avoiding offending college students:…
The Office of Civil Rights Needs Urgent Reform; That Starts with Trump’s Nominee
A great read by George Leef at the James G. Martin Center: The next head of OCR should be someone who understands that those changes were both ill-advised and illegal and work to eliminate them….
Department of Education Revokes Accreditation from Accreditor of ITT Tech
George Leef writes that at least 580,000 students, whose schools were accredited by the Accrediting Council of Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS), face the reality that their school could no longer receive federal funding. ACICS has…
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Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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