The best people do their best work when they are properly compensated. If a market does not compensate experts according to their special talents and efforts, then the market, however entrenched, must be reconfigured. The market currently in need of…
The Biden administration has canceled yet another set of student loans. This time, the government “forgave” the money owed by those who attended Corinthian College, a for-profit education group now defunct. Many have attacked this series of loan cancellations as…
A professional journalism council denied full accreditation to the prestigious University of North Carolina Hussman School of Journalism and Media on the basis that the school did not meet the council’s standard for “diversity and inclusiveness.” The president of the…
America’s wealthiest college announced Tuesday the creation of a new $100 million endowment fund. It will not be used to create more housing for students or build a new academic building but rather to address its history with slavery. These…
We’ve learned through various news outlets that President Clouseau and the Democrats plan to once again pause federal student loan repayments, thereby upending yet another age-old sequence. For centuries the sequence in question went as follows: 1. Borrow the money….
We’ve all heard stories about university administrators cracking down on free speech. But free expression is suffering even without these enablers, and that should worry us. In a recent New York Times op-ed, University of Virginia senior Emma Camp powerfully…
Two signs with anti-Asian slurs were posted on Harvard Undergraduate Council President Michael Cheng’s door Monday, according to the Harvard Crimson. The signs also carried a political message, saying, “Save the UC.” It’s unclear exactly what the slurs were. Cheng…
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…
Until I saw the new documentary The Unmaking of a College: The Story of a Movement, I wasn’t aware of the record set at Hampshire College in 2019 for the longest college sit-in in American history. In fact I wasn’t…
