Casino University: Home of the Gamblers

Nearly 770,000 Arizonans have college credits (and often some debt) but no degree to show for it. This is understandable—college is a big commitment and the real world is always…

Centrally planning a state or regional workforce, any anti-socialist can tell you, is a bad idea. The economy moves faster than planners can plan, data look backward instead of forward,…

This semester, as WUNC News’ Brianna Atkinson would have you know, UNC-Chapel Hill professor Seth Kotch replaced a once-detailed, color-coded, seven-page, Trivial Pursuit-themed course syllabus with something “more closely representing…

Great nations have always told their children great stories. From Homer and Virgil to the Bible, inherited narratives teach courage, duty, sacrifice, faith, and belonging. But this inheritance is predicated…

Since at least the early twentieth century, universities have flirted with America’s penchant for “running things like a business.” But like government, non-profits, and other non-businesses that try to be…

In September, the American Bar Association’s law-school accrediting council formally repealed Standard 206, commonly known as its diversity standard. In its earlier form, the standard required law schools to demonstrate…

What makes America the best country in the world? Freedom. And when it comes to free speech, North Carolina may be one of the best states in the country.  In…

Like many who’ve spent any degree of time instructing undergraduates, I’m all for complaining about the youth, and I have accumulated substantial material to work with. In many ways, the…