Leftist college administrators subscribe to an ideology that deems race to be the defining factor of a person’s identity. So they abhor the Supreme Court’s ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard — and they’re determined to find ways…

Students for Fair Admissions is once again challenging race-based admissions practices, this time by suing the U.S. Naval Academy. While some view the activist group as an obstacle to progress, the uncomfortable truth is that it raises valid concerns. We’re…

The evidence is undisputable that American higher education is in trouble. Enrollments are down. Costs of educating students are much higher than in other industrialized democracies. Employers frequently complain that their new college hires are inadequately prepared. Public confidence in…

Conservatives hailed the Supreme Court’s decision in early June to overturn affirmative action as a win for meritocracy and high schoolers knee-deep in college admissions. But over a month after the ruling, most education experts say it was a “rhetorical”…

It’s become a cliché by now. But just because it’s a cliché doesn’t mean it isn’t the most accurate description of what’s going on. As predicted by pundits and insiders when name, image, and likeness (NIL) legislation was met with…

Dylan Matthews, writing in Vox, poses an excellent question: “Can randomly selected citizens govern better than elected officials?” Who knows? Maybe it’s worth a try. Whether you call it sortition or lottocracy, it’s a very old idea, dating back to…

Mackenzie Fierceton began her application essay to the University of Pennsylvania by setting a bleak scene for the admissions officers. She is lying in a hospital bed with a feeding tube inserted in her mouth. Her facial features are so…