Sol Stern passed away on July 11 at age 89. Sol was my good friend, and I mourn his loss. Long before I met Sol, I reviewed one of his books, Breaking Free: Public School Lessons and the Imperative of School Choice. Years later, when we chanced to meet one another, he remembered that review […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from an article originally published by the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal on July 14, 2025. It is crossposted here with permission. Buried in a recent report from the Economic Innovation Group is a statistic that should make every university administrator in America lose sleep: Foreign-born workers who arrived […]
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A group of scholars from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has issued an open letter denouncing philosophy professor Alex Byrne for his role in co-authoring the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’s (HHS) report on pediatric gender dysphoria. The report critically evaluated the evidence for gender-affirming medical care for minors, questioning the safety […]
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Harvard does not trust the Trump administration. The Trump administration does not trust Harvard. Yet, you make peace with your enemies, not your friends. The best way forward is for Harvard—and other elite schools—to make a deal on one important aspect of their dispute: Provide admissions transparency in exchange for student visa forbearance. If that […]
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Last month at an academic freedom conference in England, a friend from a traditional part of the Middle East jokingly dismissed the sea of Pride flags festooning Oxford as the new “flags of the empire.” They observed that Pride flags outnumbered the Union Jack, the United Kingdom’s flag and that of the old British Empire, […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on July 14, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. The One Big Beautiful Bill that President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4 caps how much money graduate students can borrow from the federal […]
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