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Rent Control Advocates Need a Lesson in Economics 0
- Economics
- April 25, 2018
Rent control is one of those policies that continues to attract the favor of the public despite the fact it has repeatedly proven to be ineffective when it comes to improving the lives of those it is aimed at. The latest example can be found in Sacramento, California, where a group of people have put
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How Colleges Are Ripping Off a Generation of Ill-Prepared Students 0
- Education
- April 25, 2018
Earlier this month, the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress, aka the nation’s “report card,” was released. It’s not a pretty story. Only 37 percent of 12th-graders tested proficient or better in reading, and only 25 percent did so in math. Among black students, only 17 percent tested proficient or better in reading, and just
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Prof Who Said She’s Happy Barbara Bush Is Dead Didn’t Violate University Policies, Cal State Says 0
- Culture
- April 25, 2018
California State University, Fresno closed its investigation Tuesday into the professor who called former first lady Barbara Bush an “amazing racist” and said she is “happy the witch is dead.” Fresno State President Joseph I. Castro asserted that English professor Randa Jarrar did not violate any of the school’s policies with her remarks, reported the Foundation for Individual Rights in
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Why America Can’t Figure Out Melania’s Confident Fashion Statements 0
- Culture
- April 25, 2018
The first state dinner hosted by the Trumps was received with great pomp, circumstance, and, per usual, titter over the little details. Perhaps not surprisingly, it was First Lady Melania Trump’s fashion choices that generated a lot of attention. Her gown for the dinner. The black outfit she wore when she visited Mount Vernon. The
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Whistleblower: There Is No Faculty Accountability in Universities 0
- Education
- April 24, 2018
I became interested in academic accountability within the university because I had no choice: the lack of accountability I experienced at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington obligated me to act. I had become embroiled in a situation where I was morally bound to report wrongdoing. But I had no idea that being a
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What Did Hannah Arendt Really Mean by the Banality of Evil?0
- History
- April 24, 2018
Can one do evil without being evil? This was the puzzling question that the philosopher Hannah Arendt grappled with when she reported for The New Yorker in 1961 on the war crimes trial of Adolph Eichmann, the Nazi operative responsible for organising the transportation of millions of Jews and others to various concentration camps in
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