Trusting the ‘Experts’ is Risky Business
…health support for children in communities and schools nationwide.” Like any market player, VocoVision is positioning itself as the company that simplifies life for others, enabling them to profit. “This…
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‘Smoking-Gun’ Data on North Carolina ACT Scores
…law. This set up an interesting natural experiment since the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction collected these ACT scores from high schools and shared them with the UNC System….
Rich Students Disproportionally Protest Israel: Should We Fund Elite Universities?
…have occurred disproportionately at elite colleges where most students come from relatively rich families. You heard a lot about pro-Palestinian demonstrations, building occupation, and tent encampments at schools like Columbia…
Can Harvard Win Back America’s Respect?
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by Law & Liberty on June 3, 2024 and is crossposted here with permission. Harvard has had a very bad year. It began…
Dear ‘Atlantic’: The Golden Age of American Jews Ends Only If We Let It
…in the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln even promoted the son-in-law of New York rabbi Morris Raphall, CM Levy, to the rank of captain of the Union Army. By 1878, a…
America the Rebellious
…decree: use the correct pronouns and titles of a person confused about their gender or prepare to dance around the law’s periphery. For Americans in 1774, these demands might have…
The Kirkpatrick Doctrine and Domestic Policy
…or maintain the social order, which has its origins in natural law, whereas left-wing regimes seek to change human nature itself, forcing citizens to adopt specific behaviors and ideas, thereby…
Colleges Are Waging War Against Men
…to guilty schools. But then came Joe Biden, who returned to the Obama-era standards. Whether university administrators will be chastened by increasingly negative court decisions and an already angry public…
Against the Latest Student-Loan ‘Forgiveness’ Scheme
…branch was given the authority to enforce duly enacted laws. The proposed rules, however, clearly amount to the making of new law. Even if it were within the purview of…
Competition, the American Way
…schools have been turned into college prep schools. Shop classes have been eliminated, along with other useful courses. Most students who don’t go to college have been deprived of the…
Trump, Harvard, and Godfather Politics
As Lawrence E. Harrison shows, a nation is a state of mind, which means my parents had a transnational marriage. Mom and Dad were both children of Sicilian immigrants, but…
Progressive Overreach and the Procrustes Impulse
…laws, to shape the odd ways in which humans behave—odd ways that often emanate from a desire for individual freedom. Those fixes and organizational principles range from inspired or coerced…
Why Law School Should Be an Undergraduate Program
…the American Association of Law Schools, which is a trade group run by insiders from academia—that licenses lawyers, asserts professional disciplinary authority, issues exams, and oversees and “certifies” law schools,…
U.S. Colleges and Admission Testing: Required, Optional, or Blind?
…and ability distributions. The elite Northeastern schools re-requiring test scores—Dartmouth, Georgetown, Brown, Yale, Harvard, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)—select applicants solely from that end of the range. Thus,…
Biden Title IX changes threaten free speech, due process: legal experts
…Washington University law Professor John Banzhaf agreed with Coward’s concerns. Banzhaf told The Fix “under the new regulations” for Title IX complaints, those charged with violating the rules “would be…
Having a Theological Vision
…Students live and work near one another. There is a commonality of purpose. Most schools have a governing code of conduct or a set of guiding principles to which all…
On the Puzzle of Out-of-State Tuition
…cumulative effect of the preceding four laws is toward ever-increasing expenditure.” These laws help explain the out-of-state tuition puzzle. The first law explains that public schools are not profit-maximizers not…
Intolerable Acts: Then and Now
…news of the Boston Tea Party arrived in London early in 1774. The British government immediately set about to restore British law and order in Massachusetts. Parliament passed the first…
What Are Negative Rights?
Negative rights signal the core of natural law in the American tradition, also known as our Bill of Rights. Without them, the Constitution might never have been ratified, or we…
Hope for Harvard?
…distinction). According to CAFH’s director, Flynn Cratty, however, 121 of these come from the professional schools: law, business, divinity, the Kennedy School of Government, and the medical school. In fact,…
Academic Freedom is Not an Academic License
…history, and management science. Law remains especially susceptible to ideological influence, as the culture within law schools often reinforces ideologies through special interest rules presented as expressions of justice. Our…
Living in the Confederacy of Dunces
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by Law & Liberty on March 1, 2024 and is crossposted here with permission. When A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole…
Let’s Help Harvard Faculty Share in Its Governance
…Harvard officials for information We contacted administrators at six of Harvard’s various schools—FAS, Law School, Medical School, Divinity School, Kennedy School of Government, and Continuing Education—asking for information about faculty…
Why Are Health Care Students Still Forced to Get COVID-19 Boosters?
…be made on the basis of an individual’s age, level of education, or rank in an organization. Health care students must enjoy equal protection under the law, equivalent to all…
The (Mis)Education of Religion and the American Founding
…and State doctrine established by the Founders. After all, Americans are taught in public schools that the Founders were opposed to any establishment of religion in American society. They learn…
The New 2024 Law School Rankings: The Sociology of Law
…law schools rather than the network they create. If law schools compete for rank as institutions, they are competing over non-law categories through corporate branding, which is a device of…
Sports Madness Reveals Itself Again Very Soon
…two laws. First, the Iron Law—every time someone wins a game, someone else loses. The national aggregate win-loss record of all college teams is .500–50 percent of games are won;…
The Irrelevance of Proportionality
…a terror group by Western nations, Hamas is a jihadist Islamist mob of fanatics determined to create a Sharia law-based Caliphate free of non-believers. Specific animosity is directed at followers…
Godless Society: The Perils of Self-Worship and the Founders’ Wisdom on Morality and Religion
…— John Adams in an address to the military in 1798. Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of…
Biden and Universities Launch Sneak Attack on Free Speech
…violates the First Amendment. The Davis Standard currently prevents schools from completely shutting down speech they believe to be offensive or controversial. And even though some schools choose not to…