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Thomas Sowell: Micro-totalitarianism
Small people have small ways. The political left has come up with a new buzzword: "micro-aggression." Professors at the University of California at Berkeley have been officially warned against saying such things as "America is the land of opportunity." Why? Because this is considered to be an act of "micro-aggression" against minorities ... MORETeenagers Are Losing Confidence In The American Dream
by Joe Pinsker. As government grows, the private economy shrinks. In 1996, when asked a series of questions about the brightness of her future, one high-school senior in an unnamed Midwestern state said, “There’s been extraordinary examples of people that have been poor and stuff that have risen to the top just from their personal hard work … not ... MOREBrendan O'Neill: The Illiberal Persecution Of Tim Hunt
PC continues to run amok. If you were in any doubt that a dark cloud of illiberalism has descended over the Western academy, then the case of Tim Hunt should put you straight. Hunt is a British biochemist. A really good one. In 2001 he won the
Nobel Prize for his breakthrough work on cells. He's a fellow of the Royal Society
in London, founded in ... 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 ... MOREWalter Olson: Jail For Missed Days at School?
The madness of truancy laws. We've seen it happen again and again: libertarians are derided over some supposedly crazy or esoteric position, years pass, and eventually others start to see why our position made sense. It's happened with asset forfeiture, with occupational licensure, with the Drug War, and soon, perhaps, with ... 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 ... MOREThomas Sowell: Graduation Gifts
Education might be nice. This is the season of college graduations, and many people may be wondering what kinds of gifts would be most appropriate for young people leaving the world of academia and heading out to face the challenges and opportunities of adulthood in the real world. Given the narrow range of left to far left views of the ... MOREWhy Kids Who Aren’t Poor Now Get Free School Lunches
by Valerie Strauss. Spreading the realm of dependency. It used to be that students from families with low incomes qualified
for lunches that were either free or available at a reduced price.
That’s still true — but now, new federal rules allow kids who aren’t
poor at many schools to get the same thing. The change in the
rules means not only that ... MORENick Gillespie: Finally, An Anonymous, Online, Geo-Tagged System To Report Dastardly Microaggressions At College!
Nitwittery run amok. I realize that simply by saying that you've probably heard of microaggressions, I'm likely committing one. For the uninitiated, microaggressions are
"are statements by a person from a privileged group that belittles or
isolates a member of an unprivileged group, as it relates to race,
class, gender, sexual orientation, ... MOREStudents Are Now Literally 'Hiding from Scary Ideas,' Or Why My Mom's Nursery School Is Edgier Than College
by Robby Soave. My mother is a nursery school teacher. Her classroom is a place for children between one and two years of age—adorable little tykes who are learning how to crawl, how to walk, and eventually, how to talk. Coloring materials, Play-Doh, playful tunes, bubbles, and nap time are a few of the components of her room: a veritable "safe space" ... MORELook Out, Taxpayers: Student Loans Aren’t Being Repaid
More government folly comes home to roost. The more than $1 trillion in student loan debt is a looming problem for taxpayers because the borrowers aren't paying it back in great numbers or amounts. "Widespread failure to repay is a problem for the lender, in this case, federal taxpayers," economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of ... MORE
The Death Of Free Speech On College Campus
by A. Barton Hinkle. One of the truly delightful things about college is that it allows earnest young people to try out all sorts of ridiculous ideas without causing much lasting harm. After graduation, most will grow up and learn how to laugh at their prior selves. (The rest will become professors.) Let’s hope the undergrads and grad students ... MOREBruce E. Levine: 8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How The United States Crushed Youth Resistance
From anti-establishment to obedient sheep. Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. So it is a major coup for the ruling elite to have created societal institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance to domination. Young Americans—even more so than older Americans—appear to have ... MORE
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