For years, the Right has promoted educational vouchers as an alternative to public schools. This has always been a delusion. The schools that take vouchers become the province of government regulators, while the money for the vouchers is taken out of the hide of taxpayers already being looted for public schools. Vouchers increase, not reduce,
The big conundrum after the collapse of the Soviet Union was how to move from socialism to capitalism. The US faces the same problem now with the public-school system. Everyone knows that the status quo has got to go. With the newest report that most high-school graduates can’t even write a coherent sentence, what else are we to conclude? The
George W. Bush, our shadow president, has dropped another bombshell, announcing that the Republicans in Congress concentrate too much on economics to the exclusion of social issues like education. There’s more to life than the economy, he said, and if we elect him, he will help us see this truth. His comments are the latest in a long stream of
The anti-capitalism of college professors is legendary even if its genesis and basis is somewhat mysterious. If anything should be clear to those who care about evidence, it’s that the market economy is superior to all forms of economic planning. Even minimal amounts of government intervention produce sector-specific stagnation. Compare Fed-Ex,
The old-time caché of “public service” – that is, running other people’s lives at taxpayer expense as a bureaucrat for the government – is taking a beating in France. A new generation is coming to see that “public service” is not a high calling at all, but a very low one. For example, applications to France’s most prestigious public educational
A new poll shows 18–29 year olds turning against Bush, with 58 percent believing that the country is on the wrong track. This, however, doesn’t translate into support for Kerry. In fact the margin of difference between support for either major candidate is negligible. What does seem clear is that the wave of student enthusiasm for the GOP that
The attack on Hans-Hermann Hoppe draws attention to an institution that hangs by a thread in our state-managed times: academic freedom. The attackers and the victims come from both right and left in a continuing cycle of aggression and retaliation that began with the politicization of the university environment, and will continue so long as
It’s easy to get discouraged in the Age of Obama, a man who can say, in Castro’s Cuba, that there is not much difference between communism and capitalism. And in his warped mind, I guess it’s sort of true, since his program is a mixture. That is, it’s fascist. Combine his corporatism with envy, perpetual war, negative interest rates, the police
America’s universities have been taken over by the Left, but the way they are reacting to the fake covid-19 crisis gives us a chance to reconstitute higher education on sound free market principles. In the name of “diversity,” academic standards have been gutted. Here are some examples. Emily Walton, a sociology professor at Dartmouth , teaches
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