March 29, 2010

Ann Coulter's Speech at U Ottawa Cancelled Amid Threats

Ashley Thorne

Conservative firebrand Ann Coulter was scheduled to speak at the University of Ottawa last week, having been invited by a student group at the campus. In anticipation of her speech, the University&#......

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March 29, 2010

National Biometric Identification Card

Alex B. Berezow

Sens. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) are working together to create a national identification card with biometric technology. The purpose of the card will be to curb illegal immigr......

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March 29, 2010

Snobs Aplenty in the Ivory Tower

Candace de Russy

In an insightful commentary at In Character (subtitled "a journal of everyday virtues"), Naomi Schaefer Riley examines how academe evolved from Socrates's dictum, "All I know is that I know noth......

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March 29, 2010

Home Tutoring: An Emerging Profession

Mitchell Langbert

I was just looking over Kant's On Education.  He died in 1804 when Germany was but on the cusp of industrialization (it considerably lagged Great Britain).  Kant emphasizes home school......

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March 29, 2010

What is a Gentleman?

Ashley Thorne

NAS is working not just to reform the university, but to reform the character of the next generation. We want to see the academy produce gentlemen and gentlewomen scholars.

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March 29, 2010

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Ashley Thorne

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March 26, 2010

Cole at Yale: The Final Word

Candace de Russy

University of Michigan history professor Juan Cole has long taken radical,  public positions on the ongoing struggle in the Middle East. As Winfield Myers writes, he has&nbs......

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March 26, 2010

Radio: Obama-Ed

Ashley Thorne

Peter Wood appeared on University Talk radio to explain what will happen when student loans come directly from the government.

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March 26, 2010

Bias, Barriers, or Biology?

Ashley Thorne

Fewer women than men pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math. Is this really the big problem AAUW would have us believe?

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March 25, 2010

Big, BIG Story at Wellesley

Glenn Ricketts

Today's Inside Higher Education has a lead article about an unfolding crisis at Wellesley College, where members of the freshman class are "seething" with indignation. No, the school hasn't......

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