Great Books Are Key for a Unified Education
The Great Books—the primary texts that include the greatest writings of Western Civilization—once formed the basis of all higher education. The highest levels of society were often closed to those…
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The Conservative Case for Community Colleges, Part I: To Parents
For many parents, the prospect of sending their kids off to college can be daunting. If the price tag alone doesn’t scare them silly, there are more than enough stories…
Psychology Professors Argue Against Groupthink in Their Field
Does social science research and understanding suffer because most of the individuals working in the field are on the left side of the political spectrum? A new book gives us…
Just How Many Diversity Employees Does the UNC System Need?
In June 2017 the North Carolina General Assembly requested that the state’s university system conduct a thorough analysis of its diversity and inclusion efforts as part of an ongoing assessment…
Peer Review: the Publication Game and “the Natural Selection of Bad Science”
Editor’s Note: This is part II; part I can be found here. Professor Brian Wansink is head of the Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University. The lab has had…
How Is Science Judged? How Useful Is Peer Review?
The British journal Nature, home in 1953 to Watson and Crick’s important DNA paper, was by 1966 rather in the doldrums, with a backlog of submitted manuscripts and losing ground…
How the One-Size-Fits-All College Application Model Hurts Homeschoolers
The season for college admissions is upon us. My younger daughter is still a junior but her public school teammates are all abuzz with chatter of who applied where, who’s…
Title IX Is an Insult to Victims of Sexual Assault
Rape is an appalling crime. Its perpetrators deserve criminal prosecution and lengthy imprisonment upon conviction. Yet the discourse on sexual assault at American colleges and universities in the past few…
How Could a Professor Make ‘The Case Against Education’?
In his long-awaited book, George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan argues that “the education system is a waste of time and money.” He is emphatically not against people learning skills…
Who’s Really Playing Politics at UNC?
Once upon a time, there was a happy, sleepy university system in which nobody quarreled. The Board of Governors rubberstamped whatever the President wanted, the legislature gladly handed over whatever…