Beyond any U. S. President, in his demagoguery on the fairness/inequality issue, Barack Obama has employed the pursuit of egalitarianism and the politics of envy to an extreme degree, to the point where we are rapidly becoming what Bill O’Reilly has called the “grievance nation”. America has never been susceptible to such notions on a […]
Archives for May 2014
A Bright Spot for the Liberal Arts at UT-Austin
For many years, there has been considerable angst over the severe decline in the study of the humanities in American higher education. This decline has been particularly precipitous since the mid-1960s and, in fact, studies show that bachelor’s degree completions in the humanities nationwide declined from 14% of the total of all degrees in 1966 […]
The Real Issues with Boko Haram
The kidnapping of hundreds of Nigerian girls by the radical terrorist organization known as Boko Haram has aroused the outrage of all civilized people and has become a particular cause for the cultural elite in the U. S. My first reaction was, where have they been? This behavior is consistent with that of radical Islam […]
No More “Studies” Courses
The Texas State Board of Education voted last month to approve a modified rule that will advance the development of public school course offerings in Mexican-American Studies. This is a mistake. We already have far too much curriculum content focused on cultural “studies” in our higher education institutions. In fact, based on a 2012 study […]
Another Small Positive Step on Affirmative Action
I’m thankful for another small step in the right direction, but I wish the recent Supreme Court decision upholding a 2006 Michigan referendum banning racial preferences in college admissions would have gone much further and ended it once and for all time on its merits. In fact, in the 6-2 majority opinion, Justice Kennedy wrote […]