November 21, 2011

What Do They Teach You At Law School? Not How to Be a Lawyer

Glenn Ricketts

The substance of a legal education, especially at top-tier law schools is worse than bad, it's pretty awful. You'll apparently read lots of high theology about critical legal theory, feminis......

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November 21, 2011

Lady Gaga Makes It to Harvard

Charlotte Allen

Charlotte Allen ponders the curious fascination academics seem to have with a popular singer. Perhaps it's connected to post-modernist theory?

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November 21, 2011

The Humanities Can be Fixed

George Leef

In today's Pope Center piece, Duke Cheston writes about a recent conference at Baylor University, where scholars discussed the problems that beset the humanities and found reasons for optimism.

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November 18, 2011

Justice at Brown

Glenn Ricketts

There may be multiple reasons underlying the steep decline in male enrollments in American higher education, but I have to think that one is that so many campuses are literally "hostile environments......

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November 18, 2011

Collegiate Press Roundup

Glenn Ricketts

Student editors and columnists weigh in on how to fix the economy, why Europe is in a fiscal mess, suggest that there's room for more grade inflation and advise how to handle yourself in a tough......

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November 18, 2011

How Will the Decline of Used-Book Stores Influence Scholarship?

Peter Wood

With so many used-book stores closing their doors, Peter Wood considers the effect of their disappearance on Academe.

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November 17, 2011

Event: New York Affiliate to Host Lecture by Sol Stern

Kate Hamilton

On Sunday afternoon Manhattan Institute senior fellow Sol Stern will speak in New York City on the current value of higher education.

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November 17, 2011

Postmodern Science and Western Civilization

William H. Young

William Young assesses the impact of postmodern ideology on the natural sciences.

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November 16, 2011

NAS California Affiliate Introduces Amicus Brief Filed in Pending Supreme Court Case

John M. Ellis

The California Association of Scholars offers a statement on the amicus curiae brief they submitted in support of Fisher v. University of Texas, a case that challenges the use of racial preferences......

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November 16, 2011

Anti-Bullying Dragnet Bullies Civil Rights

Glenn Ricketts

Read this piece by Hans Bader of the Competitive Enterprise Institute to get a sense where the growing obsession with "bullying" seems to be headed. What exactly is "bullying?" You probably wouldn&#......

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