Can a Charitable Gift Be Bad?
The Koch brothers donate $25 million to United Negro College Fund for scholarships, but many want the money returned.
Author Profile
George Leef
George Leef is director of external relations for the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. He holds a bachelor of arts degree from Carroll College (Waukesha, WI) and a juris doctor from Duke University School of Law. He was a vice president of the John Locke Foundation until 2003.Prior to joining the Locke Foundation, Leef was president of Patrick Henry Associates, a consulting firm in Michigan dedicated to assisting others in advocating free markets, minimal government, private property, and individual rights. Previously, Leef was on the faculty of Northwood University in Midland, Michigan, where he taught courses in economics, business law, and logic. He has also worked as a policy adviser in the Michigan Senate.
A regular columnist for Forbes.com, Leef was book review editor of The Freeman, published by the Foundation for Economic Education, from 1996 to 2012. He has published numerous articles in The Freeman, Reason, The Free Market, Cato Journal, The Detroit News, Independent Review, and Regulation. He writes regularly for the National Review's The Corner blog and for SeethruEdu.com.
Articles by George Leef
A New Cell Phone Dilemma
Should students be permitted to use their phones to record what goes on in classes?
Part 2: My Criticisms Stand, Mr. Lazere
Professor Lazere’s response doesn’t rebuild his case that higher ed should have a leftist bias.
An Imaginary Crisis
Conventional wisdom has it that America desperately needs more STEM graduates, but “it just ain’t so.”
America’s Growing Student Debt Mountain
Lenient rules encourage students to keep borrowing, ignore costs, and hunt for “public service” jobs.
Higher Education Already Has a Leftist Bias
But a new book argues that it should have more bias to overcome society’s “conservative” indoctrination.
Ignoring the Elephant in the Room
A Pew Research study claims that those who don't go to college penalize themselves.
Trembling in the Ivory Tower
Kenneth Lasson: Trembling in the Ivory Tower; Bancroft Press; 2003; 196 pp. If one listens to spokesmen for the higher-education establishment, America’s colleges and universities are the envy of the world, … Continue reading “Trembling in the Ivory Tower”
Free Speech on Campus?
Sure—as long as you haven’t previously said anything to offend groups that now hold trump cards.
An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
Equity funding for college students is attracting attention, but can’t work as long as we have easy government loans.