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  • Spending on College Sports is Out of Control

    Spending on College Sports is Out of Control0

    th college football season upon us, this is a good time to consider again the allure that fielding winning teams in the big-money sports (football and basketball) has for many higher education leaders. Just as many students are convinced that getting into an elite college is essential to their futures, so many college presidents are

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  • Spending a $100 Million a Year to Pay Teachers to Do Nothing

    Spending a $100 Million a Year to Pay Teachers to Do Nothing0

    The New York Post ran a story Sunday about a man who was suing New York City. He wasn’t after money (he’s making $94,000 a year). He was suing to be allowed to earn his money. David Suker, 48, is one of hundreds of teachers in the Absent Teacher Reserve. He gets paid to show

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  • Special Interests Could Be Delaying a COVID-19 Vaccine

    Special Interests Could Be Delaying a COVID-19 Vaccine15

    At the time of peak lockdown, nearly 94 percent of the U.S. population was placed under stay-at-home orders to slow the spread of COVID-19. Currently, every state is working toward ending, or already has ended, their stay-at-home measures. Lifting the lockdown has provided many benefits. Foremost, the U.S. economy climbed out of a severe downturn,

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  • Speaking Truth to Power: The British Prime Minister Who Defended the American Colonies

    Speaking Truth to Power: The British Prime Minister Who Defended the American Colonies1

    The popular phrase, “speak truth to power,” implies that power is hostile to truth and that power might benefit from giving truth a hearing. It also suggests that the speaker runs some risk for speaking it. People unafraid to speak truth to power are among the great heroes of history. They raise our standards and

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  • Speaking Truth in an Age of Deception

    Speaking Truth in an Age of Deception0

    “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows,” says Winston Smith in George Orwell’s 1984. Later in the novel we read, “In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.” In 2020, our

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  • Speaking of Conspiracy Theories

    Speaking of Conspiracy Theories31

    There’s not a cloud to be seen as I drive with my seven-year-old son – apart from the five unnatural lines left behind by planes in a grid pattern, that is. “Why do people want to control the weather?” my son ponders aloud, looking up at the unnatural lines. Weeks prior, we saw similar trails

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