The sale of marijuana for nonmedical purposes is illegal in Virginia, not to mention at the federal level. But that hasn’t stopped Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia, from developing an entire major and minor totally dedicated to training students to…
Just in time for Presidents Day, the American Political Science Association released its 2024 survey of presidential greatness, which merely confirms the ideological and political bias of political science professionals — the very same people who teach (indoctrinate?) our children…
The recent lamentable travails afflicting American academia — falling public support, suppression of free expression, declining integrity of research as evidenced by seemingly widespread plagiarism — mask a longer-term but I think serious problem: American colleges and universities are disseminating…
When I was a boy riding the bus to our diocesan high school, an older kid sometimes sat in the seat next to me. He was an intelligent fellow who has since become a lawyer of considerable reputation. We might…
Harvard University has had a rough few months. It seemed as though the series of scandals that beset the once-revered university had culminated in the resignation of Claudine Gay, its former president. But this week brought forth revelations that dealt…
As I recounted recently in the Wall Street Journal, 20 years ago Milton Friedman wrote me to say, after doing a complete analysis, he believed we should be taxing our universities rather than subsidizing them. The economics involved are pretty…
Last week, teaching, for Thales College, one of the sequences of classes in Western Civilization, I and four students, by chance all of them young men, discussed Machiavelli’s The Prince. It is utterly refreshing when you know, from the start,…
Johns Hopkins University recently got caught with its hand in the DEI cookie jar when its chief diversity officer, Dr. Sherita H. Golden, in her January 2024 Monthly Diversity Digest newsletter listed “privilege” as the Diversity Word of the Month,…
In my last article, I described what I called ignorance to the third degree: ignorance that is proud of itself, that boasts of having discarded vast fields of human knowledge. Since any sane person will be a bit embarrassed when…
Academic dishonesty strikes many people as boring. After all, it is academic. It is not like Sam Bankman-Fried, the “crypto king,” making $8 billion disappear into thin air. It is not like Florida dentist Charlie Adelson paying a hitman to…