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December 6, 2010

Anthropology Association Rejecting Science?

Peter Wood

A look at the implications of the American Anthropological Association's proposal to define "science" out of anthropology.

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December 6, 2010

Ask a Scholar: Interest Rates on Government Debt

King Banaian

Why the low interest rates on government debt?

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December 3, 2010

A Victim of the Education Bubble

George Leef

Listen to this illuminating interview Peter Schiff did with a student who is $200,000 in debt for a sociology degree from Northeastern University. Schiff gets right at the root of the problem: gover......

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December 2, 2010

NAS Supports Freedom of Speech and Conscience in Keeton v. Anderson-Wiley

National Association of Scholars

NAS filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case Keeton v. Anderson-Wiley, in favor of counseling student Jennifer Keeton, who was expelled from Augusta State University for expressing her religious......

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December 1, 2010

Prison Education: Can the Liberal Arts Liberate?

Ashley Thorne

A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education titled "Doing Time, With a Degree to Show for It," discusses the value of higher education for prison inmates. The author is a distinguished fel......

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