Liberty
House targets fraud linked to ‘ghost students’
Rachael Van Rossum writes for Alpha News about an effort to fight fraud in college financial aid. U.S. House Republicans passed their No Aid for Ghost Students Act of 2026…
Hamlet
tragedy by William Shakespeare
Research Brief
Regulation
Law, not executive order, is the fix for housing shortage
Gov. Josh Stein’s new Executive Order No. 36 is a welcome acknowledgment of a problem that has been growing for years: North Carolina does not have enough housing. The numbers…
Liberty
Florida School District Targets Shakespeare for Cancellation
Ryan Mills writes for National Review Online about the latest education shenanigans in Florida. Florida teachers looking to expose high-school freshmen to some of the great works of literature and…
Education
Martin Center column targets declining English departments
Duke Pesta offers Martin Center readers ideas for improving the relevance of university English departments. A major in English was once a serious endeavor masquerading as a frivolous one. Despite…
Health Care
Union County Early Adopter With Health Care Innovation
Union County Early Adopter With Health Care Innovation
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Shakespeare without words … Another great government idea
Elizabeth Harrington documents for Washington Free Beacon readers a government effort to dis the Bard. The federal government has invested nearly $100,000 to bring Shakespeare to the stage—only without the…
Education
Perhaps you’ll need a ‘trigger warning’ for Rich Lowry’s latest National Review Online column
Count Rich Lowry of National Review among those who have substantial concerns about the use of “trigger warnings” to limit college students’ exposure to certain types of reading material. He…
Liberty
You Could Recite “Hamlet”
The biggest news story today comes from the Hendersonville Lightning. From it we learn that the greatest thing about democracy is being protected from your vote by your masters. Remember…
Liberty
There are more things in heaven and earth …
… than are dreamt of in your philosophy. My apologies to the Bard, but that line from Hamlet came to mind while reading Bloomberg Businessweek‘s startling discovery that people do…
Education
The dumbest generation?
Those who read Mark Bauerlein’s book with that title might appreciate historian Niall Ferguson’s latest Newsweek column, in which he laments the fact that teens tend to read only tweets…
Liberty
Peter Schramm on Shakespeare
McWhorter on Zora Neale Hurston and Shakespeare John McWhorter writes on Zora Neale Hurston. McWhorter is always worth reading, even when one disagrees with him, as I do on this…
Liberty
Re: Hamlet
The politically incorrect name of the theater company is reason enough to see the production. Do you think anyone has lobbied for a name change? Biomass Theatre Company?