Liberty
Time to Undo Obama’s ‘Fundamental Transformation’
Clarice Feldman of the American Thinker calls for a major shift in American government policy. In 2008 the media lapped up the master of Shuck and Jive, Barack Obama and his…
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Liberty
Progressives and nihilism
J.L. Johnson describes for American Thinker readers the “new nihilists.” To the philosopher, nihilism means that nothing in the universe matters or has any significance. Political nihilism takes the philosopher’s…
Education
CJ Commentary: Linking bullying to loneliness and belonging
This week, Carolina Journal published an opinion piece by education columnist Kristen Blair. In her piece, Blair discusses the connection between bullying and a sense of belonging. Blair writes: There’s…
Education
Leef’s latest Martin Center column offers warning to college donors
George Leef uses his latest Martin Center column to offer advice to college donors. It is quite common: A successful college alum decides to donate a large sum of his…
Energy
Results of three academic studies of fracking reported this week
Studies from Yale and Penn State find no impact from fracking on groundwater, while a study from Duke finds that putting fat cells from mice in fracking wastewater for weeks…
Education
More Mizzou misery
Thomas Lambert writes for the Martin Center about recent woes at a major Midwestern public university campus. The University of Missouri, where I teach and which I dearly love, is…
Education
Better late than never: Mizzou edition
Eric Owens of the Daily Caller reports good news from the University of Missouri. Officials at the University of Missouri’s flagship campus in Columbia have finally rid themselves of the…
Education
North Carolina: A Destination For Teachers
During the 2015-16 school year, North Carolina licensed (via interstate reciprocity agreements) and subsequently employed 1,556 out-of-state teachers.1,2,3 At the same time, 828 public school teachers resigned to teach in…
Education
Learning from history
Ben Shapiro explains at National Review Online why it’s unwise to try to rewrite or oversimplify history. Over the weekend, Yale University announced that a residential college would no longer…
Education
BLM, BS, and Mizzou misery
Blake Neff of the Daily Caller tallies damage inflicted on the University of Missouri from the Black Lives Matter campaign. The University of Missouri’s (MU) flagship Columbia campus has officially…
Education
Click firing leads to university’s censure
There’s at least one group that fails to understand the justice of the University of Missouri’s firing of a professor caught on camera urging students to attack one of their…
Education
Mizzou could have avoided its meltdown
Eric Owens reports for the Daily Caller that the University of Missouri had a tool in place that could have helped the school steer clear of its recent national controversy.…