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April 3, 2013

What Does Bowdoin Teach? How a Contemporary Liberal Arts College Shapes Students

Peter Wood

A 360-degree look at the politicization of a contemporary liberal arts college.

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April 2, 2013

It's Almost As If We'd Remained British

George Leef

In Britain too an obscenely large number of young people with a university education will not be able to find a job that matches their expectations.

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March 28, 2013

The Implausible "Stereotype Threat" Excuse

George Leef

Defenders of affirmative action must work hard to explain away a serious problem: the tendency for the students admitted due to preferences to do relatively poorly in their coursework.

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March 28, 2013

Bowdoin College's Liberated Students

Michael Toscano

NAS has published its thirteenth and final entry, "Active Learners: The Liberated Student," in its series of contextualizing observations for the Bowdoin Project.

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March 28, 2013

Ask a Scholar – U.S. v. Cruikshank

Robert Heidt

Did a Reconstruction-era Supreme Court decision restrict legal remedies for African Americans?

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