December 11, 2018

Reform by Executive Order

Thomas K. Lindsay

Congressional reform of higher education is a long shot. Can the President push reform from the bully pulpit?

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December 7, 2018

The Dog that Didn’t Bark

Steve Balch

Steve Balch explains that higher education reform under President Trump has a rocky road ahead. 

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December 6, 2018

Activist in Residence

Rachelle Peterson

Naomi Klein’s addition to Rutgers’ faculty roster appears to be a further step in aligning the public, taxpayer-supported institution with hard-left partisanship.

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December 6, 2018

Unorthodox Ideas

December 6, 2018

Episode #5: Argument by Epithet with Mark Bauerlein

National Association of Scholars

Peter W. Wood sits down with Mark Bauerlein to discuss his recent article in Academic Questions and argument by epithet. 

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December 5, 2018

Ambient Rage

Peter Wood

A review of Howard S. Schwartz's Political Correctness and the Destruction of the Social Order: Chronicling the Rise of the Pristine Self.

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December 3, 2018

Invitation: Conference Call on Proposed Title IX Regulations

National Association of Scholars

Join us as we discuss the merits and means of strengthening the new Title IX rule. 

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