I blame the Burning Schoolhouse. Canadians are perversely proud that our most popular backyard firework is unavailable in the United States. More like a science-fair volcano than a proper pyrotechnic, the homely Burning Schoolhouse ...
The American people have increasingly become docile and reliant on government largess. I see a parallel between this burgeoning dependency and the breeding of dachshunds. The dachshund was bred as a killing machine to burrow and ...
Recently I commented on a blunder by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, who suddenly wimped out after having proposed cutting 20 to 30 percent out of the state's allocation for "higher education." Corbett had a chance to do good ...
I started blogging in 2000. Two years earlier, Matt Drudge had blown the whistle (as it were) on Bill Clinton's Monica problem after Big Media repeatedly passed on the story. Even before I started my own site, I was a daily reader of ...
Another day, another person fired from a prestigious writing gig for perceived racism. This time it's Naomi Schaefer Riley, who was recently fired from her position at the Chronicle of Higher Education for calling the recent crop of ...
Intelligent people worry that our new “meritocratic” elite may become a hereditary caste. Charles Murray sees something ominous in the fact that for 25% of modern married couples, both partners have a college degree, whereas ...
My friend Daniel J. Flynn is publishing a book called Blue Collar Intellectuals. One chapter I’ve seen in proofs, “The People’s Professor,” got me to thinking about a development in post-WWII America it is hard to imagine taking ...
Having just retired from 40 years in academia and being mindful of the observation by communist-turned-conservative Whittaker Chambers that he had “not returned from Hell empty-handed,” I’m offering the following sketches of ...
Pretty much everything any politician says about education makes me want to go up to whoever said it, grab him by the suit-jacket lapels, and shake him forcefully up and down while screaming in his face: “DON’T YOU GET IT? YOU’RE ...
The Briterati, as I call Britain’s media pontificators on matters spiritual and temporal, are in a spin over reports that parents no longer read to their children and that the state is failing to protect the wee ’uns from ...
Recently at a local college whose name I will not divulge, an act of "racial vandalism" occurred which the administration is naturally investigating. The college newspaper has devoted considerable front-page coverage to this ...
A new book called Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses just proved what I"ve been screaming since I graduated: The college experience has become a total waste of time. The book revolves around research that ...
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