Tushar Subhra Dutta, writing at TechViral, explains the changes happening at America’s elite tech firms. The companies are changing their hiring focus away from only hiring college graduates with the highest grades to rewarding talent no matter how it was cultivated. Subhra Dutta reports (abridged): We all know very well that all the major technology […]
Brown-Shirted Thuggery at Bucolic Middlebury College
Originally posted on March 6, 2017. Among our favorite Harley Vermont back road rides has been traveling north on Rt. 30 from the Dorset Inn, where we have stayed countless times through the years (going back to when Sissy Hicks was the chef/owner), to the unparalleled setting of Middlebury, Vermont. Riding over the crest of […]
Caving In to Academic Bullies
After a University of Georgia professor congratulated an old friend on becoming Georgia’s Republican candidate for governor, he issued an apology to those he had “offended.” How dare he say something nice about a Republican. Charles Davis, dean of the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at UGA, sent the offending tweet shortly after […]
A Reckoning in the American Academy?
In an interview with Ben Weingarten of The Federalist, Victor Davis Hanson discusses, among other things, the decline of the American academy. Ben Weingarten: As a classicist, you’ve lamented both the corruption of the academy within your own discipline and on the modern campus more broadly — in particular on its repudiation of the Western […]
What’s Going on at Your Kid’s School?
Rod Dreher asks readers of The American Conservative if conservatives should leave public schools. Dreher points to “how little most parents know about what’s going on at their kids’ school regarding gender ideology,” as a sign that parents need to take a closer look at whether or not public school is right for their children. He […]
The Case Against Education
The Case Against Education: Why the Education System is a Waste of Time and Money written by economist Bryan Caplan points to the billions of dollars spent on education by government. It seems like everyone needs a diploma these days. For what? An excuse to drink beer? But, as Caplan explains, that degree is valued […]
News Alert from Cato Institute
Today at 4:00 p.m. EST, tune in to a Cato Institute online event to hear the evidence that school choice reduces crime, increases social tolerance, decreases segregation, and makes its recipients more likely to vote. Those are some outcomes we should all be able to get behind, The Federalist reminds readers. Tweet your questions to […]
A Long Way from Belushi’s Delta House
Remember the days when college pranks were about swallowing goldfish or counting how many undergrads could pack into a telephone booth? Gone are the days of Bluto smashing a folk guitar during a frat party at Delta House. Now writes Victor Davis Hanson in NRO, “Twenty-somethings brag about tearing down the statue of Robert E. […]
Princeton Scholarships—A Head Fake of Generosity
Princeton University has a monstrous endowment of more than $22 billion. Princeton is also asking alumni to lobby Congress to block a tax on super-sized college and university endowments. At over $60,000 a year, tuition for undergrads is also monstrous, so Princeton provides one-fourth of its undergrads with scholarships for those who find it difficult […]
Critical Thinking—Missing from Education and the Media
Are you uneasy over the way social media is infiltrating U.S. politics? So much misinformation, if not dishonest info, about public matters is “something new under the sun,” writes Holman Jenkins in the WSJ. But as Mr. Jenkins notes, everything that exists under the sun can be used for either good or evil. A free society is a tempting target for authoritarian propaganda, […]
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