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Jay Schalin

Jay Schalin joined the Martin Center in August 2007. A Philadelphia native, he began his writing career as a freelance journalist for the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey and wrote for several other papers in New Jersey and Delaware. Schalin has a B.S. in computer science from Richard Stockton College in New Jersey and an M.A. in economics from the University of Delaware.

His articles have appeared in Forbes, the Washington Times, Fox News Online, U.S. News and World Report, Investor's Business Daily, Human Events, and American Thinker. His op-eds have been published by the McClatchy News Service and the Raleigh News & Observer. He has been interviewed on ESPN, National Public Radio, and UNC-TV, and his work has been featured on ABC News and Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor.

Schalin is a member of the National Association of Scholars and is on the Board of Directors for the Academy of Philosophy and Letters.

Articles by Jay Schalin




Indoctrinate Me Not

A new report shows that campus politicization must be stopped for the once-great University of California system to thrive.


Demonizing Profits

The increasing rhetoric against the profit motive, heard everywhere lately from the Occupy movement to the White House, begins on campus.






Board Games

North Carolina’s new State Board of Proprietary Schools is assuming licensing authority over for-profit schools from the community college system.


Less College, More Work

The United States has overemphasized college at the cost of working, resulting in an imbalance of workers and non-workers.