September 18, 2005

Warning Signs about Higher Education

In a recent conversation with a major American Jewish philanthropist I was shocked to find that this individual has all but given up hope of reforming colleges and universities. Irretrievably corrupted by leftist politics, institutions of higher educ...

September 14, 2005

Back to the campus follies

School is back. Kids around the country have put away baseball gloves, bathing suits, those big scoop things they use to play hai—lai, and they're dutifully waiting for school buses. Or to be dropped off on campus, where they will decorate thei...

July 13, 2005

Academic freedom in Gaza and beyond

Academic freedom can be defined many ways, but it critically includes the freedom to criticize, based on facts and informed opinion, without fear of official retaliation. It also means that scholars who experience retaliation — not in the form ...