April 18, 2011

"The First Book I've Ever Read"...No Comment

Ashley Thorne

A UConn senior, an athlete, reads a book for the first time.

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April 18, 2011

Video: Terry Anderson on Sustainability and Free Market Environmentalism

A professor emeritus of economics makes a case for markets as the true path to future generations' prosperity.

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April 18, 2011

Ask a Scholar: Tax Structure

Richard S. Leaman

What are the pros and cons of a flat tax?

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April 15, 2011

Collegiate Press Roundup

Glenn Ricketts

Student press writers this week ponder the legality of military operations in Libya, the need for an undergraduate science requirement, why spending cuts are the key to economic recovery and the Oba......

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April 15, 2011

Budget Cuts Loom for "Frivolous" Language Programs

Ashley Thorne

Will reduced federal funding for Title VI foreign language study hurt national competence or help cut academic waste?

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April 13, 2011

On the "White Privilege" Conference

George Leef

Carol Iannone has a terrific blog post on this at Phi Beta Cons.

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April 13, 2011

Another Crack in the "College for Everyone" Dike

George Leef

Harvard's Pathways to Prosperity project challenges the conventional wisdom that the U.S. simply must process more young people through college, saying that for many young people, there are bett......

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April 13, 2011

Libertarian Defends Professor Cronon (While Blasting the Hypocrisy of the Left)

Jonathan Bean

Over at the leading libertarian magazine, Reason, writer Shikha Dalmia attacks conservatives for using FOIA laws to invade the privacy of historian William Cronon. At the same time, Dalmia defends O......

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April 13, 2011

NAS Defends Freedom of Speech in Barnes v. Zaccari

Ashley Thorne

NAS joins a coalition of fifteen organizations to defend freedom of speech at Valdosta State University.

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April 13, 2011

Preferred Colleagues

Peter Wood

Peter Wood examines a new study of hiring biases that faculty members admit to holding.

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