Campus Libertarianism up, Civic Commitment Down
…serve? Will they sacrifice? According Charles Murray in his recent book Coming Apart, it is the upper classes (which will be composed of the students in this survey) that have…
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How To Bridge the Educational Divide
In an essay in the Wall Street Journal plugging his new book “Coming Apart” (which I haven’t read yet), Charles Murray writes about a new American divide: “We have developed…
How Universities Promote the “Coming Apart” of America
…The Bell Curve, a controversial but rigorous examination of the role played by cognitive endowments in American life. I suspect his new book, Coming Apart: The State of White America,…
The Harvard Protest: Theatricality Mixed with Incoherence
…to learn in college is critical thinking; the ability to recognize that all speech–whether coming from in front of the classroom, from a novel, or from a textbook–reflects a certain…
Grade Inflation All the Way Up
…the same time, it sets the presidents’ responses (apart from those 30 or so percent) in the category of puffery, not truth-telling. They know that if they started talking about…
Mandatory Summer Reading (Yawn)
…their incoming freshmen to read a novel or non-fiction work to be discussed in small groups during orientation week, which in many cases also features a campus visit by the…
Twenty Years in the Vineyards of Higher Education Reform
…have characteristics that set them apart from the realms of humane inquiry. All lend themselves to experiment or, at least, to highly controlled observation. All deal with phenomena that, compared…