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  • How Historical Illiteracy Fuels Political Polarization

    How Historical Illiteracy Fuels Political Polarization0

    Greater knowledge of the past would help improve America’s public discourse. Once again, President’s Day has come and gone and Americans spent little time reflecting on their past leaders—in part, because Americans know so little history at all, even about the country’s most well-known Founding Fathers. For example, in a 2012 survey commissioned by the

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  • How Higher Education “Studies” Men

    How Higher Education “Studies” Men0

    In 2013, Stony Brook University (part of the SUNY system) revealed plans for a new “Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities.” Since I’m a Stony Brook grad, I was quite interested in this development. Would the new Center do anything to enhance the school’s reputation for scholarship? I didn’t think it would, but

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  • How Harvard (Secretly) Discriminates Against Asian Americans

    How Harvard (Secretly) Discriminates Against Asian Americans0

    In April, a group launched a lawsuit against the school, insisting that Harvard University release hidden information regarding its admissions. The organization leading the lawsuit is Students for Fair Admissions, which is comprised of Asian-American students who applied to get into Harvard and were rejected. The group says it believes the school is guilty of

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  • How Grade Inflation Erodes the Meaning of College

    How Grade Inflation Erodes the Meaning of College0

    Every so often, the issue of grade inflation makes the headlines, and we are reminded that grades are being debased continuously.  That happened in late March when the two academics who have most assiduously studied grade inflation—Stuart Rojstaczer and Christopher Healy—provided fresh evidence on their site GradeInflation.com that grade inflation continues.  The authors state, “After 30 years of making

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  • How Government-Guaranteed Student Loans Killed the American Dream for Millions

    How Government-Guaranteed Student Loans Killed the American Dream for Millions0

    In Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell wrote that prices are what tie together the vast network of economic activity among people who are too vastly scattered to know each other. Prices are the regulators of the free market. An object’s value in the free market is not how much it costs to produce, but rather how

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  • How Government Takes from Workers to Help the Wealthy

    How Government Takes from Workers to Help the Wealthy0

    The list is short of politicians who are economically literate. Until recently, I was unaware of Pierre Poilievre, a member of the Canadian Parliament. In a speech to the House of Commons, Poilievre demonstrated his economic literacy as he explained how government steals from the working poor and middle class to help the politically-connected wealthy. 

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