by Henry Oliner | Dec 10, 2023 | Anti Semitism, Education
The hearings in Congress from presidents Liz Magill of The University of Pennsylvania, Claudine Gay of Harvard and Sally Kornbluth of MIT have gone viral and are so detrimental to the reputation of their schools that Magill has already resigned. It is shameful that...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 7, 2021 | Education, Politics, Progressivism
From the Wall Street Journal. Why I Stopped Hiring Ivy League Graduates: Student activists don’t represent the majority of students. But I find myself wondering about the silent acquiescence of most students. They allow themselves to be cowed by charges of racism and...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 2, 2018 | Education, Politics, Progressivism
The political clout from one state teacher’s union is stunning. from Bahnsen, David L.. Crisis of Responsibility: Our Cultural Addiction to Blame and How You Can Cure It (pp. 93-95). Post Hill Press. Kindle Edition. Here is what we do know, courtesy of the nonpartisan...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 1, 2018 | Education, Politics
From today’s Wall Street Journal, an interview with George Gilder, Sage in the Machine by Tunku Varadarajan America’s university system, says Mr. Gilder, is “incredibly corrupt and ideological.” How did it come to be like that? Surely, I observe, it wasn’t that...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 15, 2018 | Economics, Education
from Kevin Williamson at National Review, ‘Socialist’ Is the New ‘Libertarian’ (Question: What do you imagine would happen to the price of a Honda Civic if the federal government gave every young person in the country ten grand and a subsidized loan that could only be...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 31, 2018 | Education
from Victor Davis Hanson at National Review, The Origins of Our Second Civil War But if campus materialism was at odds with classroom socialism, few seemed to notice. Instead, the idea grew up that one had no need to follow concretely the consequences of his abstract...
