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  • Restoring the Four Pillars of Education

    Restoring the Four Pillars of Education1

    Few would argue that modern education is in crisis. Evidence suggests our system creates moral nihilists; professors admit they are teaching students who “know hardly anything about anything at all.” So what is to be done? If education is so bad, how do we fix it?  We need to begin by reexamining what constitutes a good education, a

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  • Fail U.: The False Promise of Higher Education

    Fail U.: The False Promise of Higher Education0

     Department of Education recently proposed new regulations to punish colleges that attract students with misleading claims. But what if the whole system of higher education in America is guilty of that? In his latest book, Charles Sykes, a senior fellow at the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, makes the case that it is. Fail U.: The False Promise of

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  • Children Should be Encouraged to Read Fantasy Fiction

    Children Should be Encouraged to Read Fantasy Fiction1

    Recently I spoke with a friend who expressed some angst that his 12-year-old son was primarily interested in reading fantasy novels. Efforts to introduce the lad to higher forms of literature were proving more difficult than he’d expected. Not to worry. Fantasy novels and science fiction yarns, I said, are often gateways to the higher

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  • Princeton HR Scrubs Word ‘Man’ From Lexicon

    Princeton HR Scrubs Word ‘Man’ From Lexicon0

    Via the College Fix: The Princeton University HR department has largely wiped the word “man” from its vocabulary. The relatively new policy in effect at the Ivy League institution spells out the directive in a four-page memo that aims to make the department more gender inclusive. Instead of using “man,” employees are told to use

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  • LGBT Site Retracts Favorable Review of ‘Racist’ Gay Taco Film

    LGBT Site Retracts Favorable Review of ‘Racist’ Gay Taco Film0

    Funny man Seth Rogan apparently pushed the boundaries of comedy too far in Sausage Party, a computer-animated comedy starring himself, Salma Hayek, Kristen Wiig, and a dozen other Hollywood funny people. The film features a taco (Hayek) who develops feelings for a hotdog bun (Wiig). Get it? The movie is causing a bit of a

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  • Capitalism: Who Are The Real Beneficiaries?

    Capitalism: Who Are The Real Beneficiaries?0

    In Milton and Rose Friedman’s classic book Free to Choose: A Personal Statement they made the following point (this quote was featured on my recent Milton Friedman birthday post): Industrial progress, mechanical improvement, all of the great wonders of the modern era have meant relatively little to the wealthy. The rich in Ancient Greece would

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