We are sorry to inform you that Phi Beta Cons will be shutting down this week. This is the last PBC post. National Review Online,…
https://www.nationalreview.com/phi-beta-cons/phi-beta-cons-ends-publication/
In Friday’s Pope Center article, Jason Fitzgerald of Penn Strategies, a Harrisburg firm that has dealt with many grads of Penn State’s Harrisburg campus, laments…
TV news readers and print jockeys are blatantly biased to the Left. How did this happen? It began around 1965 in universities and colleges. The radical…
https://www.nationalreview.com/phi-beta-cons/how-journalists-became-biased-left/
Socrates left us a DIY kit for enlightenment: Ask a question. Listen. Reflect on the answer. Repeat. University of Virginia professor Mark Edmundson took Socrates…
https://www.nationalreview.com/phi-beta-cons/mark-edmundson-why-write-diy-enlightenment/
I viewed FIRE’s documentary film, Can We Take a Joke?, on streaming. (FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, is the leading watchdog for…
https://www.nationalreview.com/phi-beta-cons/fires-documentary-can-we-take-joke/
Ever since the crash of 2008, commentators have been warning of a coming crash in higher education. They – I among them – have seen…
https://www.nationalreview.com/phi-beta-cons/universities-and-medieval-catholic-church/
Tuition costs are out of control, graduates struggle to find employment, and colleges are more interested in building luxurious dorms than educating their students. So is there…
https://www.nationalreview.com/phi-beta-cons/charles-sykes-fail-u-book-review/
In a post in these pages last week, I mentioned president Robert Duffett of small Eastern University making a pitch that Hillary Clinton’s “free” college tuition…
So argues Tim Worstall, a Brit who writes often for Forbes. One of the arguments we hear all the time from the higher ed establishment…
https://www.nationalreview.com/phi-beta-cons/college-isnt-public-good/
I have always found the Beloit College “mindset list” amusing to read (although some years are better than others) and I think that professors should…
https://www.nationalreview.com/phi-beta-cons/beloit-college-issues-annual-mindset-list/
That is Neal McCluskey’s assessment of the Education Department’s new regulations aimed at for-profit colleges. In this Cato@Liberty post, he writes, “Just accusing a school…
https://www.nationalreview.com/phi-beta-cons/new-education-regulations-unfair-colleges/
Should a public university have a student lounge exclusively for women? Mark J. Perry, an analyst with the American Enterprise Institute, suggested a few years…
InsideHigherEd.com reports that Biology Professor Robert Dillon was suspended from the College of Charleston for not having acceptable, accreditor-required student learning outcomes (SLOs) on his...
https://www.nationalreview.com/phi-beta-cons/inside-higher-ed-college-charleston-slo-folly/
Daniel Henninger is certainly right to point out how a second Clinton presidency would mean the further and deeper entrenchment of freedom-destroying political correctness, especially in hi...
https://www.nationalreview.com/phi-beta-cons/progressive-agendas-have-no-good-side/
What’s the matter with American college students? Besides the fact that many of them are lazy, feel entitled to good grades, and can’t be civil…
https://www.nationalreview.com/phi-beta-cons/pope-center-article-moral-relativism-students/
Two stories on higher education this week captured national headlines. The first centered on students of color at the Claremont Colleges who did not want…
https://www.nationalreview.com/phi-beta-cons/black-college-students-refuse-live-white-students/
This was predictable, and it certainly didn’t take long. Robert Duffett, president of Eastern University in suburban Philadelphia, wrote an interesting commentary in The Philadelphia…
In this Accuracy in Media article, Tucker Carlson bemoans the state of journalism these days. He condemns the practice of journalists who air their opinions…
https://www.nationalreview.com/phi-beta-cons/bad-journalism-and-college/
The answer to that question, alas, may be yes. George Leef’s latest Forbes column discusses a recent complaint filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity…
https://www.nationalreview.com/phi-beta-cons/are-microaggressions-migrating-workplace/
Leftist commentators constantly harp on the compensation of business CEOs, often employing extremely misleading data. but for some reason, the compensation paid to people they’re…
https://www.nationalreview.com/phi-beta-cons/pope-center-article-college-presidents-paid-too-much/