Universities and Meritocracy
We take it for granted that people are free to use their abilities as they choose, and as a result, society as a whole benefits from their work and innovations.…
Articles by George Leef
How Did We Get Into the Debt Trap?
No one spoke of college students being trapped in debt until rather recently. Prior to the advent of federal student aid programs, college wasn’t expensive, few Americans regarded it as…
Recalling the Great UNC Sports Scandal—How Much has Really Changed?
A decade ago, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was engulfed in a sports scandal that made national headlines, brought down a chancellor who seemed destined for a…
Progressivism Surges Through America’s Law Schools
Law schools in the U.S. used to be run by no-nonsense individuals who, whatever their personal politics, thought that their institutions existed to teach students about the law, not to…
College Officials Should be Responsible When They Violate People’s Rights
Here is a recurring situation on American college and university campuses—an official acts in a way that violates the constitutional rights of students or faculty members, usually by trampling on…
How ‘Experts’ Abused Science to Saddle America with the Microaggression Mania
(Editor’s note: this article was updated on August 25, 2021, to provide additional information and clarification about the microaggressions research done by Monnica Williams, Ph.D.) The need to combat “microaggressions”…
Higher Education Is Shutting Student Minds
Colleges and universities used to proclaim that their mission was to give students a broad education that would expand their intellectual vistas—one that would open their minds. Most still say…
A Broad and Devastating Offensive Against Racial Preferences
Last year, advocates of racial preferences in California, where they’d been banned since 1996, attempted to change the law so that state colleges and universities could again give admission advantages…
A Christian College Sues to Protect Its Values Against the Federal Leviathan
Under the Constitution, the federal government has no power over education, including arrangements that colleges make for student housing and expectations for their conduct on campus. Furthermore, the First Amendment…
New Study Analyzes the High Cost of College
TANSTAAFL. There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. That’s the pithy way that economists convey the idea that there are always costs associated with the goods and services…