public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Aaron Sibarium of the Washington Free Beacon reports the latest plagiarism accusations involving Harvard. It’s not just Claudine Gay. Harvard University’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, Sherri Ann Charleston, appears…
Katherine Doyle of the Washington Examiner reports on unwelcoming comparisons between the Biden administration and a Democratic predecessor. Amid declining poll numbers and a stalled legislative agenda, President Joe Biden…
Greg Dumas writes for National Review Online about faculty attacks on college sports. A growing number of college administrators are trying to convince students, alumni, and donors that the time…
Charles Fain Lehman and Chrissy Clark report for the Washington Free Beacon on the potential electoral impact of college campuses shutting their doors to students this fall. College campuses that…
Why would two professors want to retract a paper that had no apparent methodological, mathematical, or interpretative errors? The answer, as described in part one, is “cancel culture.” In a…
So-called “cancel culture” is currently on the rise in the United States. Cancel culture is a term used to refer to the “cancellation” of a person who says something outside…
Karl Popper wrote The Open Society and Its Enemies during the Second World War in an attempt to explain and refute the totalitarian ideologies that had delivered Europe into the hands…
It is easy to tell a pollster you favor something when its costs and benefits are both hypothetical. It's a different thing altogether when the benefits are still speculative, while…
Frederick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute places a recent controversy at a major Midwestern university in a larger context. Michigan State University has announced a $2.4 million retirement deal…
James Piereson and Naomi Schaefer Riley urge National Review Online readers to choose a “cheap” college or none at all. As the Chronicle [of Higher Education] notes, “to the company,…
George Leef’s latest Martin Center column reflects on the impact of “social justice” with university business schools. Many professors cannot resist the temptation to smuggle their personal beliefs into the…
The Wall Street Journal reports on the strains Medicaid and government retirement obligations place on state and local budgets. The article quotes Dan Boyd, a senior research fellow at Rockefeller…