Apr 3, 2026

An Immodest Proposal for Reforming Law-School Admissions

Entry into the legal profession is a matter of national consequence.

I am not a lawyer, nor am I a product of the American legal academy. But a patriotic higher-education policy cannot leave the legal profession to the lawyers alone. We…

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Apr 2, 2026

Skin In the Game At Last

Startling news from the world of student-loan reform: A federal intervention appears to be not only working on its own terms but producing beneficial knock-on effects. With apologies to the…

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Apr 1, 2026

Classical Education Needs a Better Defense

As a professor of the classical liberal arts, I began reading Bob Pepperman Taylor’s new book, Liberal Education and Democracy, with interest. Taylor, who teaches law and politics at the…

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Mar 30, 2026

States Should Lead on Higher-Ed Reform

In recent years, federal policymakers have pursued sweeping higher-education reforms. Yet these efforts are often slow, legally contested, and subject to reversal. For example, during both of his terms of…

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Mar 27, 2026

Florida’s Intellectual Lifeboats

The Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida has just established two Ph.D. programs: “History of Ideas” and “War, Statecraft and Strategy.” I believe these…

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Mar 26, 2026

What Is TransparUNCy Up To?

Earlier this year, Inside Higher Ed ran a puff profile of “TransparUNCy,” the unpronounceable left-leaning organization that has lately become one of the University of North Carolina’s “most effective watchdogs.”…

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Mar 25, 2026

Why My AI Writing Assignment Failed

AI is here to stay, the experts say. Don’t fight it. Embrace it and give students a legitimate way to use AI in their writing. I’ve heard those claims since…

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Mar 24, 2026

America Shouldn’t Educate Our Adversaries

On Wednesday, March 18, during the third week of the war with Iran, the New York Post broke a striking higher-education story. According to the report, the children of six…

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Mar 23, 2026

“Yes” to Cameras in the Classroom

News recently came out of Chapel Hill that the flagship campus of the University of North Carolina had adopted a new policy that allowed administrators to record class proceedings at…

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