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February 13, 2013

Unbiasing American History

Ashley Thorne

Ashley Thorne writes a review of Recasting History for First Things. 

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February 13, 2013

Professors as Independent Contractors

George Leef

What today's academics could learn from Adam Smith.

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February 8, 2013

A Hundred Ideas for Reforming Higher Education

Peter Wood

The status quo is so deeply entrenched that only a fantasy map will get us out of the Great Gillikin Forest to the Emerald City, from the Inferno to the Paradiso.

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February 7, 2013

One Hundred Great Ideas for Higher Education

Richard Arum, Jill Biden, Andrew Delbanco, Joseph Epstein, Victor Davis Hanson, Wilfred McClay, Charles Murray, Ibn Warraq, Tom Wolfe, and many others share their ideas for reforming higher education.......

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February 7, 2013

Social Justice and Democratic Engagement

William H. Young

William Young examines the extent to which contemporary ideas of "social justice" have displaced traditional Western concepts in American higher education.

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