Tag Archives | higher education

Adult Supervision

Commentary by , April 19, 2018

Five Things You Need to Read Today Here is your latest update, for subscribers only, recommending five stories that are worth catching. 1. What Democratic Party Rule Looks Like I recently directed your attention to an article arguing for California as a model of one-party rule, which is to say Democratic Party rule. Among the […]

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Five Things You Need to Read Today

Commentary by , February 18, 2018

Here’s your weekly update, for subscribers only, drawing your attention to five stories that are worth catching. Today, the main theme is me being proven right on a couple of issues. I’ll try not to let it go to my head. 1. The Paradox of the “Moderate” Extremists I rail a lot about the nefarious […]

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Who Punches the Nazi-Punchers?

Feature Article by , December 19, 2017

Top Stories of the Year: #4 Yesterday, I started counting down the top five stories of 2017. Today we continue with number four. This year, an old evil that we thought was defeated began its resurrection. An ideology that killed millions in the 20th Century gained a band of fanatical young adherents who bellowed their […]

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Pillars of the State

Feature Article by , December 5, 2017

Editor’s Note: I recently noticed a thoroughly researched blog post from Stuart Hayashi detailing an important part of the history of American higher education that I had never heard before. This is particularly relevant to the present because the Wharton School has produced several very influential alumni, including Warren Buffett—and Donald Trump. As you will […]

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Philosophy Is the Handmaiden of Political Correctness

Feature Article by , November 1, 2017

“Political Correctness Enforced on College Campus” is pretty much a “Dog Bites Man” story these days, but I just came across a new entry in the genre that is particularly interesting because it happened in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Philosophy departments are, in theory, supposed to be […]

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We Live in the Dystopia Young Adult Fiction Warns Us About

Feature Article by , October 18, 2017

The past few decades have seen a profusion of “young adult” fiction—books written for a teenage audience—which seem to have a peculiar obsession with future dystopias. There’s the one where everything is controlled by the Capitol and teenagers are forced to fight to the death for a televised audience. There’s the one where teens are […]

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The Suicide of Liberalism

Feature Article by , October 11, 2017

The far left, under the banner of Black Lives Matter, is protesting a campus speaker again. Who is it this time? Some neo-Nazi like Richard Spencer? An unscrupulous provocateur like Milo Yiannopoulos? Just a garden variety scary conservative like Ben Shapiro? Nope, it’s the ACLU as represented by Claire Gastañaga, Executive Director of the ACLU […]

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Lighting Fires and Filling Buckets

Feature Article by , June 25, 2017

Policy Ideas for the Age of Automation, Part One: Education Everyone is starting to become concerned that the machines are about to take away all of our jobs—at least, all of the jobs that we do now. Everything is on the chopping block to be automated, from flipping burgers to driving trucks to filing legal […]

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Liberalism Is Dead, Long Live Liberalism

Feature Article by , December 20, 2016

Top Stories of the Year: #5 It’s time to count down the top five stories of the year, looking back at the big events of 2016 and reviewing my coverage of them. We’ll start the countdown with #5, a continuation of a long-running story, but one that reached new milestones this year: the ongoing death […]

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Brophobia

Feature Article by , September 21, 2016

Mitch Hall’s recent article in The Federalist about the attempt to force a transgender agenda onto fraternities and sororities provoked a ferocious reaction from some of his fellow students at William & Mary, who attempted to cast him out as an unperson. What really leaped out at me from this response was the following passage, […]

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