My Top-Notch Illiberal Arts Education
By Danielle Charette | Wall Street Journal | At Swarthmore, it’s fine to smash ‘hegemonic power structures’ and silence other students.
For a case study in the illiberalism that has taken over liberal arts colleges, look no further than Swarthmore. I suspect that the Quakers who founded the school in 1864—and prized tolerance above all—wouldn’t recognize the Swarthmore where I am currently a junior. The latest upheaval has centered on the school’s radical environmentalist club, Mountain Justice, which…
Grove City Student Receives FTU Scholarship Award
Free Think University is pleased to announce another student scholarship, awarded by Foster and Lynn Friess in conjunction with the Left Right, Left Right, Forward March! Initiative (leftrightforward.org). Mr. and Mrs. Friess have been leaders in the business and philanthropic fields. They started the…
Polls on global warming, energy, etc.
The latest issue of AEI’s monthly newsletter on public opinion, AEI Political Report, examines the attitudes toward global warming, how Americans feel about the production and transportation of energy, the fallout of the sequester, changing attitudes about taxes, and the situation…
Population Bomb? Not Quite!
By Mark J. Perry | No, there’s been a massive global drop in human fertility that has gone largely unnoticed by the media….I suspect that the rapid drop in fertility in such countries as India and Brazil, as well as its association with television, has been missed in mainstream U.S. commentary in part because it flies in the face of deeply ingrained…
Government Restricts Speech on College Campuses
By Andrew Kloster | Last week, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division and the Department of Education (ED) Office for Civil Rights issued a joint letter memorializing an “agreement” with the University of Montana relating to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Any university receiving federal funds must comply with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1964 or risk losing those funds. These acts prohibit discrimination and ensure that students all have equal access to critical public educational goods. However, this letter goes further, much further, and tells all American universities that they must…
Resisting the Reins of Power
By Eric Metaxas | The Legacy of George Washington | It takes a truly great man to resist seizing power when it is clearly within his grasp. If you pay much attention to what goes on in Washington (DC), you’ll observe that no one voluntarily gives up power. They cling to it the way a drowning man clings to a life preserver…
Winning Takes Care of Everything
By John Stonestreet | Our New Heroes | Most of you will recall several years ago when golf superstar Tiger Woods took a nose dive. The man who had the world at the tip of his putter lost respect, fame, millions in sponsorships and, of course, his wife after revelations surfaced of various and tawdry extramarital affairs. Despite Woods’ profuse apologies to fans, colleagues, and competitors, his career was in the rough, and no one knew how long it would take him…
The Case Against Cronies
By Timothy P. Carney | The Atlantic | The Republican attack on President Obama’s economic policy has changed subtly, but significantly, in the last three years. In 2009, he was allegedly a “socialist” and a “Marxist” who lusted for government control of the entire economy. But lately, that has given way to more nuanced charges of “crony capitalism” — of giving special, friendly treatment to certain companies and industries, or allowing powerful…
Student Loan Debt Ranking By State Shows Continued Rise
By Tyler Kingkade | The Huffington Post | College students who graduated with bachelor’s degrees in 2011 left school with the largest average student debt load in history, according to a new report. The class of 2011 came out with an average of $26,600 in student loan debt, a 5 percent increase from…