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Opinion
Change, or Softening Us up for Revolution?
Revolution is in the wind and can be smelled in small ways. The ‘meal guidelines’ for the Democratic National Convention are the epitome of political correctness suggesting that the Obama government will be “Green,” not red, white and blue.
Jul 17, 2008
Why Not Reform Higher Education?
At the American Enterprise Institute in September 2007, George Miller—former member of the Secretary’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education, financial expert, and former chairman of the Board of Regents of the University of Texas—set forth a plan for what he called “prospective accreditation.” Why not do that?
Jul 13, 2008
Bush = McCain
“McCain = Bush” is not a mere political slogan, it’s the death rattle of a once great political party.
Jul 11, 2008
No Republicans Need Apply?
Scott Jaschik reports in the July 10 issue of InsideHigherEd.com on a controversy about who said what about not hiring Republicans at Duke University.
Jul 10, 2008
What is Outcomes Based Education?
Outcomes Based Education and outcomes assessment both descend from that strain in American thought that we usually call pragmatism. “Judge us solely by the consequences of what we do,” is the creed of the pragmatist, and it thrills something in the American soul. To be judged by outcomes alone means that we can escape (momentarily) the sterner questions of motive and meaning.
Jul 7, 2008
Jesse Helms RIP
Senator Jesse Helms died yesterday, but the conservative movement that he stood for had died with the election of George Herbert Walker Bush in 1988.
Jul 5, 2008
Independence Day 2008 and Ross Perot
This Independence Day promises to bring major changes, not the least the replacement of a failed President by one who offers new hope in the ability of government to, well, govern. Let us remember, however, that our government takes too much of the productive resources of the American people and that idealistic promises to increase spending on more and ‘better’ federal programs is a one-way ticket to your enslavement to the administrative state.
Jul 4, 2008
Outcomes Based Assessments are Destructive of a Liberal Education
Are outcomes-based assessments destructive of true learning? They are and that's why an Assistant Secretary of Education resigned her appointment at the U.S. Department of Education.
Jun 30, 2008
What Do You do When You Live in a Totalitarian Country?
Ever since President Nixon played what was then called “the China card,” America’s foreign policy toward communist China, officially known as the Peoples Republic of China, has been one of accommodation. Fortunately, the people of China know right from wrong and today they protested against the Chinese regime’s toleration of murder and rape.
Jun 29, 2008
Coup d'etat time?
Should George W. Bush resign? Who would bring that about? Coup d’etat are attempted and sometimes pulled off by serious people. That eliminates the House and Senate Leadership of the GOP.
Jun 20, 2008
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