student newspaper published in Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina, USA
The right to individual liberty is the foundation of Western civilization; without it, Western culture ceases to exist. Individual liberties, such as the right to produce and consume ideas, are…
George Leef writes for the James G. Martin Center about former Daily Tar Heel editor Andy Thomason’s new book, Discredited: The UNC Scandal and College Athletics’ Amateur Ideal. Here’s an excerpt:…
George Leef of the Martin Center looks back at the athletic and academic scandal that rocked UNC-Chapel Hill. A decade ago, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was…
KC Johnson writes for the Martin Center about misuse of transparency in UNC Chapel Hill’s dealings with the campus newspaper. “Sunlight,” Justice Louis Brandeis once wrote, “is said to be…
UNC-CH officials must have expected that at least 130 students would be infected, but that amount represents an incidence rate of less than 1 percent. Those cases are all it…
In a 4-3 ruling, the N.C. Supreme Court has ruled that UNC-Chapel Hill must turn over to media outlets records of sexual assault violations on campus. The split ruling affirms…
This week, Brent Van Vliet of the Daily Tar Heel wrote an article about the government’s response to the Coronavirus outbreak. Specifically, the article mentions the “Families First Coronavirus Response…
This week, JLF’s Terry Stoops commented on teacher pay for the Daily Tar Heel. The article reports on a school teacher, Sally Merryman, who defends Gov. Roy Cooper’s decision to…
More than a quarter century has passed since I worked with Steve Politi at the Daily Tar Heel. But he has just offered me a reminder of his biting wit…
Magdalene Horzempa writes for the Martin Center about UNC-Chapel Hill’s support for “social justice” protesters. Campus protests started in the 1960s, but protests on today’s college campuses have a different…
The Daily Tarheel reports on an initiative to make testing less demanding in public schools. The initiative was accounted last week by N.C. State Superintendent Mark Johnson. According to his…
John Locke Foundation’s Terry Stoops was featured in The Daily Tarheel for comments on North Carolina’s math standards. The Daily Tarheel reported that the Thomas B. Fordham Institute rated North…