November 25, 2016

Trump’s Chance to Fix American Higher Education

Donald Trump’s election brings with it both an opportunity and an imperative to straighten out the mess that modern higher education has become. The level of disconnection of the academy from the rest of America is most recently evidenced by th...

December 19, 2015

College admissions: aristocracy or meritocracy?

Affirmative action is before the Supreme Court yet again. This time it is the University of Texas in the hot seat; soon it might be Harvard defending itself against credible charges that its admission policies discriminate against Asian applicants. ...

December 12, 2015

Intellectual Foreclosure on American Campuses

We’ve all seen and heard the screeching campus protesters by now. They’re quite an earful, these overly confident college students who seem to think they should be lecturing the rest of us before they’ve even completed their undergr...

May 7, 2015

It's Time for a New Free Speech Movement on Campus

As the 2014-2015 school year draws to a close, it’s worth noting a significant anniversary in higher education that’s gone largely unnoticed by the majority of the press and broadcast media. It’s been 50 years since University of Ca...