Lamenting the problem of ‘lingustic debasement’
Robert Weissberg writes for the American Thinker about structural damage to the English language. Both the dollar and the English language are mediums of exchange, and just as a dollar…
American political scientist
Robert Weissberg writes for the American Thinker about structural damage to the English language. Both the dollar and the English language are mediums of exchange, and just as a dollar…
Robert Weissberg examines Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders‘ campaign promises for an American Thinker column. Thanks to Bernie Sanders, “Democratic Socialism”, by which he means a cornucopia of state-supplied benefits…
Political science professor Robert Weissberg makes a strong argument here that it’s a trap for all who disagree with the “diversity” and racial preference agenda.
Professor Robert Weissberg of the University of Illinois writes here about the way Social Justice Warriors (SJW) have largely taken over American campuses. This aggressive band of people (students and…
For decades, politicians like Barack Obama have been pushing higher education as the solution to just about all our problems: it makes society more equal, it increases our ability to…
Robert Weissberg, who taught political science for many years at the University of Illinois, writes about the UNC scandal here. He does not believe that the phony courses and inflated…
Political science professor Robert Weissberg has a great piece on American Thinker that was inspired by the predictable wringing of hands over the recent poor showing for the US on…
Of late, we’ve heard often that government is “broken” because a few people in Congress can stand in the way of transformative legislation. If you understand the principles of the…
Among the many distractions from America’s real problems Obama resorted to in his State of the Union was the idea that the country needs all little kids in pre-K programs.…
We hear almost incessantly that colleges and universities need to use “affirmative action” (that is, preferences for students who happen to have certain ancestries), but in today’s Pope Center piece,…
That is, essentially, Dr. Robert Weissberg’s argument today in a humorous, Machiavellian essay over at the Manhattan Institute’s Minding the Campus website. He advocates separating the hard-line left from the…
It’s in our very nature, says Robert Weissberg over at NRO’s Phi Beta Cons blog: Conservatives are forever complaining about campus PC, i.e., the forceful imposition an unreal political orthodoxy.…