President Trump‘s threat to withhold $9 billion from Harvard University is being framed in the legacy media and academia as a threat to Harvard‘s academic freedom. But there is a pertinent question no pundits are even asking: Why are taxpayers being forced to give Harvard $9 billion?
Federal education officials claim to be “enforcing” racial equality in American classrooms, but the reality is that the government often is the source of racial bigotry in the schools.
If Ivy League protesters love anything more than performative activism, it’s free money, especially when it comes from people they claim to hate.
Phasing out the Department of Education is a step in the right direction towards an increasingly market-oriented system of education.
There‘s a new sheriff in town, and that spells trouble for the vast federal subsidies that undergird much of higher education. With more universities becoming R1 research institutions, the competition for dwindling federal dollars will change the higher education landscape.
"Universities are nurseries of socialism, but there's always a remnant of young people who resist the statist propaganda."
"The state is the ultimate villain in economic stories, disrupting voluntary trade and imposing unnecessary controls."
"The percentage of Americans who have confidence in higher ed has dropped from 65% a decade ago to the low 30s today."
"The government has been throwing money at higher education, and the response has been that a lot more people are going to college that otherwise may have found other pathways."
Tom DiLorenzo, Jonathan Newman, Timothy Terrell, and Jason Jewell speak on their experience in academia, the future of education, and promising alt
