private research university in St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Spencer Lindquist writes for the Federalist about a disappointing development within American universities involving face masks. How much would you have to be paid to commit social suicide? What if…
Recently, members of the N.C. Senate sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Secretary Dr. Mandy Cohen asking her to provide more details about the modeling…
Researchers from North Carolina released a new model today that suggests North Carolina may need to continue current social distancing measures through the end of May. The model considers two…
Jacob Howland writes for the Martin Center about problems plaguing one Oklahoma school. Suffering from self-inflicted wounds, the University of Tulsa is sick and getting sicker. This is a case…
Governments like to use clawbacks, in which they provide a benefit but demand it back if some objective is not reached. North Carolina uses clawbacks for some tax incentives, but…
Jenna Robinson’s latest Martin Center column focuses on bridging a divide between the public and the American system of higher education. The partnership between America and its colleges and universities…
For a guy who billed himself as a professor of constitutional law, Barack Obama didn’t have a great track record when his policies appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court. Elizabeth…
At the TaxProf blog, Paul Caron reports on two attempts to rank law schools in terms of how well their graduates fare in the job market: Dan Filler (Drexel) has mined the ABA placement…
Remember Holden Thorp, who was chancellor at UNC-CH for a few years? Where’d he go? Answer: to Washington University in St. Louis. What’s he doing? Pushing the university to double…
Kevin Williamson shares with National Review Online readers some interesting data about Americans’ income levels, along with the political ramifications. Far from having the 21st-century equivalent of an Edwardian class…
Remember all that talk about the 1 percent versus the 99 percent? You might be surprised — actually not, if you’ve been paying attention — to find that President Obama’s…
UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp is leaving the university for Washington University in St. Louis. He will be remembered for a variety of things — some bad, some good. Here’s one…