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Universities Need To Be Made To Lose Prestige
Incidentally, the header image is genuine and not AI. I still wonder why the right did not embrace the left's call to defund police. Think about no police. Think long…
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Why Universities Are Still Shrieking In Hersterical Fear & Mandating Student Vaccination
The title answers itself, does it not? The seed is there, I mean. A thoroughly masculine word, seed, and therefore inappropriate for today's discussion. Egg, then. The egg is there.…
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New Effort To Fix Universities Just Dropped: If You Are A Colleague, Please Consider Signing
A group of scholars (of which I'm one) have begun a new effort to correct troubles of American universities. We call this "The Path to Prosperity". We're working on a…
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Universities Are Expertocracies In Minature
We have been warning you for well over a decade that what happens at universities does not stay at universities. All of us laugh and marvel at the great idiocies,…
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Universities Are Dead: Let’s Bury Their Corpses & Begin Anew
The purposes of a university are to pass on knowledge and to provide a refuge in which to conduct scholarship. That's it, and nothing more. Nowadays scholarship is called "research",…
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Defund Colleges & Universities Immediately
This was written in a fit of optimism, and with the tacit assumption that you should no longer go to college or let your kids go to college. I cannot…
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Universities The World Over Eliminating Testing
It isn't fair, dear readers, that Yours Truly is taller, stronger, more virile, intelligent, handsome, humorous, magnificent and humbler than you. I was born that way. These esteemed and desirable…
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Close Down Old Universities And Build Our Own?
Roger Scruton has called for dumping universities as they currently exist. Scrap them altogether, he says. At least dynamite the state-sponsored ones (in England). Most universities are state-sponsored, though. At…