Relentless culture warriors. I have a slightly different take on California’s recent decision to regulate college sex. Don’t get me wrong: I think it’s beyond idiotic, unworkable, even borderline Orwellian. We’ll get to all that. But I also think it’s incredibly useful. You see, for years I’ve been railing and ranting about the ridiculous myth that liberalism ... MORE
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Jonah Goldberg: Liberals Storm California's Bedrooms
Relentless culture warriors. I have a slightly different take on California’s recent decision to regulate college sex. Don’t get me wrong: I think it’s beyond idiotic, unworkable, even borderline Orwellian. We’ll get to all that. But I also think it’s incredibly useful. You see, for years I’ve been railing and ranting about the ridiculous myth that liberalism ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: The Death of Freedom in Our Schools
The final nail in the coffin. Young Alex Stone didn’t even make it past the first week of school before he became a victim of the police state. Directed by his teacher to do a creative writing assignment involving a series of fictional Facebook statuses, the 16-year-old wrote, “I killed my neighbor's pet dinosaur. I bought the gun to take care ... MOREWalter E Williams: Your Tuition Pays For This
Campus nitwittery is no bargain. According to College Board, average tuition and fees for the 2013-14 school year totaled $30,094 at private colleges, $8,893 for in-state residents at public colleges and $22,203 for out-of-state residents. Many schools, such as Columbia University and George Washington University, charge yearly ... MOREKatie Kieffer: Let Students Carry On Campus
Why force students into being sitting ducks? Pepper spray, police and cardboard signs failed to prevent the June 5 Seattle Pacific University shooting. Let’s stop mass violence on college campuses by defending college students’ right to carry firearms on campus. Tragically, this is the third column this year that I must write defending ... MOREObama Just Found A Way to Make College Cost More
by Shikha Dalmia. University presidents are crying a river over the Obama plan to create a federal scorecard to rate colleges. But their tears might be the only good thing to come out of this plan. Otherwise, it's simply a welfare scheme for students masquerading as college accountability that won't do diddly to make college more ... MOREMatt Welch: When the Left Turned Against Free Speech
The demise of the Free Speech Movement. On March 4, in a designated "free-speech zone" at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), associate professor of feminist studies Mireille Miller-Young walked over to a 16-year-old anti-abortion protester named Thrin Short and demanded that Short take down a graphic sign ... MOREMichael Beato: Political Correctness Hinders Truth Seeking
Of course, that's the whole point. The latest bout of collegiate outrage that has captured the nation’s attention surprisingly does not come from an offensive themed fraternity party, or an undergraduate bellowing “Don’t tase me, bro” during a political speech. No, the country is taking notice that institutions of higher education are ... MOREThomas Sowell: Poverty And Snow Storms
The exit route is obscured. Many years ago, in upstate New York, there was a lady who was caught
in a fierce snow storm that produced conditions called a "whiteout."
That's when the snow is falling so thick and fast that all you can see
in any direction is just sheer white. This lady wandered around in the
storm, struggling to try to get home, ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Kangaroo Courts On Campus
Does political correctness trump justice? There seems to be a full-court press on to get colleges to "do something" about rape on campus. But there seems to be remarkably little attention paid to two crucial facts: (1) rape is a crime and (2) colleges are not qualified to be law-enforcement institutions. Why are rapists not reported to ... MOREOne In Five Women Is Sexually Assaulted In College?
by Samantha Harris. The White House's questionable data. In January, the White House announced the creation of a White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault. On April 29, that task force came out with its first report, Not Alone,
which is intended to “help schools live up to their obligation to
protect students from ... MORECampus Censorship And The End Of American Debate
by Greg Luckianoff. In the year and a half since I handed in the final draft of Unlearning Liberty, an amazing number of developments have taken place on and off campus regarding the free speech rights of college students and faculty. While some of them have been positive, several have been deeply disturbing to those of us who care ... MOREThomas Sowell: The 'Fairness' Fraud
It seems as if, everywhere you turn these days, there are studies claiming to show that America has lost its upward mobility for people born in the lower socioeconomic levels. But there is a sharp difference between upward "mobility," defined as an ... MORE
Derek Olson: Students' Free Speech
ASU cracks down on free speech. Arizona State University expelled the Tau Kappa
Epsilon fraternity last week after it held a Martin Luther King,
Jr.-themed party. Pictures surfaced on social media of students dressed
in hip-hop style clothing with hashtags invoking black stereotypes. To
say the least, it was an inappropriate way to ... MOREThe Ten Worst Colleges For Free Speech: 2013
Freedom of expression is under assault. College is where inquisitive minds go to be exposed to new ways of
thinking. But on some campuses, the quest for knowledge is frustrated
when administrators censor speech they would prefer be kept out of the
marketplace of ideas. To close out the year, we at the Foundation for Individual Rights ... MOREThomas Sowell: Christmas Books - The Gift Of Clarity
Great winter reads. As Christmas approaches, the shopping mall can become a shopping maul. One of the ways of buying gifts for family and friends, without becoming part of a mob scene in the stores, is to shop on the Internet. However, for many kinds of gifts, you want to be able to see it directly, and perhaps handle it, before you part with your ... MOREVIDEO: Professor Dave Fights For Free Speech On Campus
Harassment and liberty. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Higher Education
would like to introduce you to Dave. A “born philosopher” and
“intellectual rebel,” Dave grew up to be a college professor, a position
he thought would allow him to help young college students challenge
conventional wisdom and explore new ideas. ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Is Thinking Obsolete?
Indoctrination with unexamined assumptions. While it is not possible to answer all the e-mails and letters from readers, many are thought-provoking, whether those thoughts are positive or negative. An e-mail from one young man simply asked for the sources of some facts about gun control that were mentioned in a recent column. It ... MORE
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