Education
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The Myth of “Adjunctification” and Disappearing Tenure in Higher Ed
“These data paint an unambiguous reality that collides with FIRE’s narrative. The adjunctification of higher ed is an empirical myth, and the benefits of tenure are exaggerated in relation to its unseen costs.” ~ Phillip W. Magness
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Woke Universities are Rousseau’s Children
“In their furious effort to dictate what speech is and is not acceptable, universities like Michigan and Oklahoma have embraced Rousseau’s censorship, and therefore tyranny.” ~ Garion Frankel
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How the ‘The Ant and the Grasshopper’ Fable Reveals the Folly of Student Loan Forgiveness
“Today, instead of Aesop Fables, we have Government Fables. One of these Government Fables, College Debt Forgiveness, closely parallels the Ant and the Grasshopper but with a perverted moral.” ~ Michael Heberling
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Time for a New University?
“The foreseeable ranting and naysaying among journalists and scribblers isn’t an impediment to UATX. The chief challenge for UATX, in fact, will be recruiting students.” ~ Allen Mendenhall
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Everything Nancy MacLean Doesn’t Like is a Conspiracy Theory
“It would appear that MacLean’s ideological disdain for school vouchers is so intense, so fervent, and so unwavering, that she’s willing to countenance a direct partnership with racial segregationists in the service of that cause.” ~ Phillip W. Magness
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The Long History of Parents’ Rights
“If the recent denigration of parents is a harbinger of things to come, then liberty-loving people need to make the case, once again, for the right of parents to direct their children’s education, including in public schools.” ~ Joseph Griffith
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Economics Classroom
“Critics worry that DEI initiatives will lead to watered down, therapeutic curricula, but the DEI push is a great time for economics (and economists!) to shine in the classroom with hard-headed but soft-hearted analysis.” ~ Art Carden
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Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America
“The America of the 2020s seems to Murray uncomfortably like the America of the 1850s, with rising tensions that erupted into our terrible bloodletting in 1861. Just as the political leaders then failed to foresee the coming tragedy, so do ours today.” ~ George Leef
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Parents as Domestic Terrorists: Why No One Should Be Surprised
“All over the country, American parents and students are opting out of government schooling. These are the dissidents who will expose the lies of totalitarian education, simply by continuing to exist.” ~ Laura Williams
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Let’s Save Liberal Education by Rethinking It
“Those of us who believe there is more to life than consumption and production have a duty to explain why liberal education matters. It is a duty that is not only to ourselves but, more importantly, to our students, if we wish them to be good citizens and good people, and truly to be free.”…
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The Myth of “Adjunctification” and Disappearing Tenure in Higher Ed
“These data paint an unambiguous reality that collides with FIRE’s narrative. The adjunctification of higher ed is an empirical myth, and the benefits of tenure are exaggerated in relation to its unseen costs.” ~ Phillip W. Magness
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Woke Universities are Rousseau’s Children
“In their furious effort to dictate what speech is and is not acceptable, universities like Michigan and Oklahoma have embraced Rousseau’s censorship, and therefore tyranny.” ~ Garion Frankel
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How the ‘The Ant and the Grasshopper’ Fable Reveals the Folly of Student Loan Forgiveness
“Today, instead of Aesop Fables, we have Government Fables. One of these Government Fables, College Debt Forgiveness, closely parallels the Ant and the Grasshopper but with a perverted moral.” ~ Michael Heberling
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Time for a New University?
“The foreseeable ranting and naysaying among journalists and scribblers isn’t an impediment to UATX. The chief challenge for UATX, in fact, will be recruiting students.” ~ Allen Mendenhall
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Everything Nancy MacLean Doesn’t Like is a Conspiracy Theory
“It would appear that MacLean’s ideological disdain for school vouchers is so intense, so fervent, and so unwavering, that she’s willing to countenance a direct partnership with racial segregationists in the service of that cause.” ~ Phillip W. Magness
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The Long History of Parents’ Rights
“If the recent denigration of parents is a harbinger of things to come, then liberty-loving people need to make the case, once again, for the right of parents to direct their children’s education, including in public schools.” ~ Joseph Griffith
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Economics Classroom
“Critics worry that DEI initiatives will lead to watered down, therapeutic curricula, but the DEI push is a great time for economics (and economists!) to shine in the classroom with hard-headed but soft-hearted analysis.” ~ Art Carden
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Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America
“The America of the 2020s seems to Murray uncomfortably like the America of the 1850s, with rising tensions that erupted into our terrible bloodletting in 1861. Just as the political leaders then failed to foresee the coming tragedy, so do ours today.” ~ George Leef
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Parents as Domestic Terrorists: Why No One Should Be Surprised
“All over the country, American parents and students are opting out of government schooling. These are the dissidents who will expose the lies of totalitarian education, simply by continuing to exist.” ~ Laura Williams
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Let’s Save Liberal Education by Rethinking It
“Those of us who believe there is more to life than consumption and production have a duty to explain why liberal education matters. It is a duty that is not only to ourselves but, more importantly, to our students, if we wish them to be good citizens and good people, and truly to be free.”…