by Henry Oliner | Nov 20, 2017 | Education, Philosophy, Politics, Progressivism
From Glenn Harlan Reynolds in The USA Today, Social media threat: People learned to survive disease, we can handle Twitter: Likewise, in recent years we’ve gone from an era when ideas spread comparatively slowly, to one in which social media in particular allow them...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 14, 2017 | Education, Politics, Progressivism
from Higher Education’s Deeper Sickness by John Ellis at The Wall Street Journal: The imbalance is not only a question of numbers. Well-balanced opposing views act as a corrective for each other: The weaker arguments of one side are pounced on and picked off by the...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 30, 2017 | Education, Politics, Progressivism
from Scientific American, The Unfortunate Fallout of Campus Postmodernism- The roots of the current campus madness, by Michael Shermer: In a 1946 essay in the London Tribune entitled “In Front of Your Nose,” George Orwell noted that “we are all capable of believing...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 26, 2017 | Economics, Education
from the Wall Street Journal, Mizzou Pays a Price for Appeasing the Left by Jillian Kay Melchior He was not alone. Thousands of pages of emails I obtained through the Missouri Freedom of Information Act show that many alumni and other supporters were disgusted with...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 15, 2017 | Education
from The Georgia Public Policy Foundation Friday Facts 7/7/17 Academia gone rogue: In a whistleblower lawsuit, Duke University admitted its in-house investigators believe a former lab tech falsified or fabricated data that went into 29 medical research reports over...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 22, 2017 | Education, Politics, Progressivism
William Voegeli wrote an important book, Never Enough which I highly recommend. In National Review he writes Why the Liberal Elite Will Never Check Its Privilege It turns out that “social justice” amounts to noblesse oblige, simultaneously strengthening the...
