In World War I, 53,000 Americans died. One of them may have been your ancestor. The reasons behind this conflict and its impact on world history influence daily life today. But you’d be hard...
The eminent historian Niall Ferguson has devastatingly skewered his (and my) field of study in a talk for the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, subsequently published as “The Decline and Fall of History.”...
In an ironic move to address a bad economic outlook, the University of Alaska Fairbanks administration has voted to eliminate its economics program. UAF administrators recommended dissolving the program to help alleviate UA system...
While the nine members of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) hold enormous sway over the direction of American jurisprudence and over everyday life, striking new evidence suggests that most Americans are...
While the business community focuses on the talent pipeline for “hard skills,” the notion that the liberal arts are no longer valuable in today’s economy has too often become conventional wisdom. But the broad,...
Thanks to Netflix, many millennials have seen “The West Wing,” and if they’ve seen the first episode, they know who “POTUS” is. Unfortunately, no similar pop-culture references exist to inform millennials what SCOTUS is,...
On college campuses across the country, free speech is under fire. Earlier this month, the issue captured national attention, when protesters at Middlebury College disrupted sociologist Charles Murray’s lecture and assaulted a professor, who...
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