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by | Mar 12, 2018

Most efforts to reform state universities have ended in failure. Texas regent Wallace Hall was almost impeached when he tried to…

by | Mar 12, 2018

Most efforts to reform state universities have ended in failure. Texas regent Wallace Hall was almost impeached when he tried to…

by | Feb 24, 2018

The American Political Science Association (APSA) released its periodic rankings of American presidents earlier this week. The list tells us…

by | Feb 21, 2018

Washington Recently a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in league with a professor at the University of…

by | Feb 7, 2018

Friends of the University of Chicago often profess its humanities and social sciences have largely escaped postmodern infection. But no institution is…

by | Jan 24, 2018

On the available evidence, it’s tempting to conclude that academe can’t get any goofier. Can’t sink any lower. But don’t…

by | Jan 8, 2018

Vladimir Lenin was said to have boasted that capitalists would give his communists the rope to hang them. The self-anointed…

by | Nov 29, 2017

The U.S. Justice Department finally is confronting Harvard University and other elite colleges that blatantly discriminate against Asian-American applicants with…

by | Nov 21, 2017

Note: In lieu of my usual column, here is the text of a speech I gave at my alma mater,…

by | Nov 14, 2017

Let’s tax college. It’s a basic rule of economics that if you want less of something, you ought to tax…

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