by Ana Kasparian. Obama gets it right. During a recent town hall in Iowa,
President Obama addressed the issue of political correctness on college
campuses. He specifically called out liberal students who have
protested or banned conservative speakers at commencement ceremonies. “I’ve heard some college campuses where they ... MORE
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Political Correctness At Colleges Is A Real Problem
by Ana Kasparian. Obama gets it right. During a recent town hall in Iowa,
President Obama addressed the issue of political correctness on college
campuses. He specifically called out liberal students who have
protested or banned conservative speakers at commencement ceremonies. “I’ve heard some college campuses where they ... MOREVictimhood Has Become A Badge Of Honor On Campus
by Alex Pfeiffer. Weaklings now revered. A journal article by two sociologists suggests the rise of microaggressions stems from a culture of victimhood that celebrates the aggrieved and perceives them as virtuous martyrs – most notably on college campuses. Making matters worse, this perception is fostered by administrations that coddle and ... MORERachelle Peterson: Divesting From Free Speech
Environmentalists shut down debate on campus. Students campaigning to get universities to divest from fossil fuels are in two minds about free speech. They want it for themselves, but don’t seem keen on free speech for their opponents. The divestment movement didn’t invent free-speech hypocrisy, but divestment activists offer a range of ... MOREHow Helicoptered Kids Become Hypersensitive Students
by Lenore Skenazy. Creating the scaredy cat generation. This is the article everyone’s talking about: “The Coddling of the American Mind,” by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, on the cover of this month’s Atlantic.
It discusses the idea taking root on college campuses that students
cannot be exposed to ideas, words, or phrases that ... MOREWalter E Williams: Academic Fascism II
Anti-free speech and racist diversity policies. Last week's column highlighted college campus absurdities and the ongoing attack on free speech and plain common sense. As parents gear up to fork over $20,000 to $60,000 for college tuition, they might benefit from knowing what greets their youngsters. Deceitful college officials, who ... MOREPolitical Correctness Makes College Students Mentally Ill
by Daniel Greenfield. The biggest emotional bully wins. First, complaints of emotional distress are way up. Nearly all of the campus mental-health directors surveyed in 2013 by the American College Counseling Association reported that the number of students with severe psychological problems was rising at their schools. The rate of ... MOREWalter E Williams: Academic Fascism
Boogeymen everywhere. George Orwell said, "There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them." If one wants to discover the truth of Orwell's statement, he need only step upon most college campuses. Faculty leaders of the University of California consider certain statements racism and feel they should not be used in ... MORECollege Codes Make 'Color Blindness' A Microaggression
Inciting hyper racial consciousness. There are many mad and worrying things about the speech codes
spreading across campuses like a contagious brain funk. There's their
treatment of even everyday words as "problematic" terms of abuse.
There's the branding of the most anodyne forms of friendly banter as
"aggressive" (apparently it is a ... MOREJoshua Krause: Americans Embrace Debt As New Norm
7 in 10 believe that debt is necessary. America’s debt problem has been widely documented over past few years, and not just the public kind. The average American is swimming in trillions of dollars in medical fees, car payments, mortgage liabilities, as well as credit card statements and college tuitions. However, none of that is shocking ... MOREHow Student Loans Create Demand For Useless Degrees
by Josh Grossman. Last week, former Secretary of Education and US Senator Lamar Alexander wrote in the Wall Street Journal
that a college degree is both affordable and an excellent investment.
He repeated the usual talking point about how a college degree increases
lifetime earnings by a million dollars, “on average.” That part about
averages is ... MOREThe Totalitarian Mind Set Of Hurt Feelings
by Scott Lazarowitz. Has freedom of speech become a thing of the past in America? College campuses now are intellectual prisons, and the thin-skinned offendotrons are the guards. And in post-9/11 America you can’t criticize the Regime without being called a “traitor” or “unpatriotic.” The political and social fascists and control freaks ... MOREExperts Urge Congress To Protect Free Speech On Campus
by Robert Davis Edelman. A panel of activists condemned college campus speech regulations Tuesday during a House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice hearing. Led by Greg Lukianoff, president and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), the panel issued indictments of so-called ... MORE
John Stossel's Advice On College: Don't Go
It's graduation time! Have we learned much? No. College has become a scam. Some students benefit: those with full scholarships and/or rich parents so they don't go deep into debt, those who love learning for its own sake and land jobs in academia and those who get jobs that require a college credential. But that's not most students. Politicians such ... MORE
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