The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters By Benjamin Ginsberg (Oxford University Press, 264 pages, $29.95) When I began my college search, a family friend jokingly referred to university as a four-year…
Democrats and sympathetic media types like to cite the personal likeability of President Obama as an indicator of his reelectability (just today on MSNBC, Jonathan Capehart did it). So it seemed a no-brainer that Obama would go on Jimmy Fallon’s…
Religious groups at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee are banned from making leadership decisions based on religion, thanks to rules set forward by officials enforcing its “nondiscrimination policy.” According to the administration, “membership in registered student organizations is open to everyone…
Religious groups at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee are banned from making leadership decisions based on religion, thanks to rules set forward by officials enforcing its “nondiscrimination policy.” According to the administration, “membership in registered student organizations is open to everyone…
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton plans to step down if President Obama is re-elected, but she noted that the State Department could get more done if people aren’t paying attention, according to Josh Rogin of Foreign Policy: Clinton warned her…
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton plans to step down if President Obama is re-elected, but she noted that the State Department could get more done if people aren’t paying attention, according to Josh Rogin of Foreign Policy: Clinton warned her…
Every so often, we lose a politician who stood apart from the typical political careerists. Someone who took bold stands against the fashions of the times. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-N.Y., is not among that elite few. So let’s be glad…
Every so often, we lose a politician who stood apart from the typical political careerists. Someone who took bold stands against the fashions of the times. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-N.Y., is not among that elite few. So let’s be glad…
Applying to the bar is very difficult, but New York Times columnist Joe Nocera would have you believe that it should be a cinch for a recovering pathological liar. He writes that Stephen Glass, who had fully or partially fabricated…
A challenge to New York City’s onerous rent control laws has been granted cert by the Supreme Court according to the New York Times. The plaintiff, James Harmon, a former lawyer in the Reagan adminisration and an alumnus of West…