Liberty
Young men adrift: looking beneath the surface
A new survey from the Institute for Family Studies asks why so many young men are adrift, disconnected and disengaged from today’s world. The study, conducted by YouGov between April…
Samuel Abrams
Liberty
Lamenting Harvard faculty’s ‘wasted privilege’
Samuel Abrams writes for Real Clear Education about problems plaguing America’s oldest university. Over the past two years, the depths of anti-Semitic hate have been on full display on college…
Liberty
Partisan Professors Cause Problems for Higher Ed
Roger Pielke writes about the negative impact of higher education focused on partisan goals. The lack of diversity among professors is problematic for both education and research, ostensibly the overriding…
Education
High Schools Treat Conservative Students Poorly, Evidence Shows
Samuel Abrams writes for National Review Online about disturbing news involving conservative students in public high schools. With schools reopening for in-person instruction in a few weeks, many people are…
Education
Americans don’t want woke schools’ divisive ideology
Samuel Abrams writes at Real Clear Policy about a growing concern about American schools. In the past few weeks, it has become apparent that the extreme progressive impulses infecting higher…
Liberty
Do you see your neighbors as red or blue?
A lot of attention is being paid to an LA Times column about a Leftie’s gnashing of teeth over her discovery that her Trump-supporting neighbors are nice people. Virginia Heffernan…
Education
Most young Americans don’t want to silence debate
Samuel Abrams writes at Real Clear Education about relatively good news for the future of free speech. Though colleges and universities have been open for only a few weeks, reports…
Education
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
Just as the University of North Carolina System is searching for a new president, the chairman of its governing board steps down. Rick Henderson assesses the significance of Harry Smith’s…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Overselling the urban-rural divide
Samuel Abrams of the American Enterprise Institute warns readers not to overemphasize the extent of the divisions between urban and rural America. In “The Left Behind,” Princeton sociologist Robert Wuthnow…
Education
Challenging a book-length attack on charter schools
Bob Bowden of Choice Media explains for Barron’s readers why a new book, Education and the Commercial Mindset, misses the mark in its attack on charter schools. In this copiously…