Few sectors of American life are as toxic and dysfunctional as higher education, and yet sometimes delicious rectification happens, and it is a time to savor. American universities are starting to crack under pressure—from growing public skepticism about higher education, outside activism, and the Trump administration’s push to stamp out both anti-Semitism and unconstitutional “diversity, […]
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It started out as a concert like any other. Music blasted through stacked speakers, the Old Town School of Folk Music logo emblazoned on flags hanging from the top of the stage, billowing in the breeze like a war banner. People stood around, drunk, happy, and dancing. In the crowd, I stood with my friends, […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on RealClear Science on August 19, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. The irreproducibility crisis of modern science—the failure of large proportions of scientific research to produce true results—just keeps on going. In November, a survey of 1,924 biomedical […]
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