Tag: College

Atlas Shirks

Henry Racette
Henry Racette
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Just a couple of quick thoughts about our nation’s infrastructure, and about what it takes to keep it healthy and robust.

It’s easy for Americans to believe that the human condition is one of relative security, comfort, and ease. That’s been the story of America during my lifetime, after all: since World War II we have enjoyed unprecedented prosperity and security. I grew up taking those things for granted, as did my own children.

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Young Americans #72

College Republican National Chaos

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Hosted by Jack Butler
With guest Isaac Schorr

Jack brings back his NR colleague Isaac Schorr to examine what the heck is going on with the schism at the College Republican National Committee.

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Three Martini Lunch

Cubans Demand Freedom, Massive Master’s Degree Debt, Kamala & Kinkos

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Hosted by Greg Corombos & Jim Geraghty

Jim & Greg cheer on the Cubans taking to the streets to demand their freedom, despite the very real threat of punishment from the government. They also shake their heads at a new Wall Street Journal report showing the massive amount of debt Master’s degree students are piling up and then not getting the lucrative jobs they dreamed about. And they get a kick out of Vice President Kamala Harris being reluctant to support voter ID requirements because she believes Americans in rural areas don’t have access to photocopiers.!

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Sharp Rose
Sharp Rose
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The college football playoffs have come up in conversation once again. A twelve team playoff has been floated in the media, and I would be all for it. However, I would propose something even more drastic. In April, the several European soccer teams announced, to much chagrin, the formation of a “super league”. This league […]
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What’s the Point of College?

Henry Racette
Henry Racette
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Too many people are going to college. In response, colleges have trivialized their curricula, introducing vacuous and pointless programs like Gender Studies, Popular Culture, and Journalism. No one needs to major in these things, and the world isn’t made a better place because these majors exist.

The reality is that only a minority of us are really equipped to think deeply about abstract things. The rest of us would be better served, would be better providers and better people if we simply learned to do something of value and to do it well. Then college could do what college was originally intended to do: teach people complex ideas that require a depth of study and commitment beyond what most people are interested in pursuing.

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Whiskey Politics #264

Dinesh D’Souza: Can America Survive the Socialist Left?

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Hosted by Dave Sussman
With guest Dinesh D’Souza

Ep. 264 – How will the Left react to a Donald Trump victory? Award-winning Filmmaker and NY Times Bestselling Author Dinesh D’Souza discusses how to ‘Beat the Socialism, Corruption and the Gangsterization that Defines the Democrat Party’, why children have not been taught about failures of communism, his latest film Trump Card, Election 2020, AOC, Ilhan Omar, Bernie Sanders and much more in this long-form interview. Watch the film VOD on your big screen at TrumpCardTheMovie.com.

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9thDistrictNeighbor
9thDistrictNeighbor
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I know a few college-age kids, some of whom have gone back to campus and some of whom have decided not to return to campus but continue their studies through online classes.  Some of the kids I know have tasted the Kool-Aid and live in fear, not necessarily fear of contracting COVID themselves but of […]
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Three Martini Lunch

Cuomo’s COVID ‘Metaphor,’ Kasich’s Unconvincing Argument, College COVID Insanity

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Hosted by Greg Corombos & Jim Geraghty

Join Jim and Greg as they hammer New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for referring to COVID as a metaphor and for continuing to portray himself as some sort of disease conqueror when his state suffered far more than any other. They also discuss John Kasich crossing over to endorse Joe Biden and why his arguments that Biden won’t cave in to the far left has already been proven false. And they have fun with Albion College’s insane rule that students have to stay in a 4.5 mile perimeter for the entire semester.

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Three Martini Lunch

College Football Cancellation, Chicago Rioting, Willie’s ‘Advice’ for Kamala

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Hosted by Greg Corombos & Jim Geraghty

Join Jim and Greg as they lament the Big Ten Conference reportedly cancelling the 2020 college football season and that puts every other conference on the brink as well. They also unload on Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot as rioters vandalize and loot along the city’s Magnificent Mile and attack and injure more than a dozen police officers. And they discuss former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown publicly urging former mistress Kamala Harris to decline the opportunity to be Joe Biden’s running mate.

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HubWonk #17

Student Loan Collective Bargaining: Leveraging Loan Aggregation for Better Rates

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Hosted by Joe Selvaggi

Join Hubwonk host Joe Selvaggi as he talks with Chris Abkarians and Mikhil Argawal, co-founders of LeverEdge, about how their new student loan platform uses loan aggregation and competition to secure better rates for student loans.

Guests:
Chris Abkarians is a co-founder of LeverEdge, the first collective bargaining group for student loans. He is a graduate of  Harvard Business School and received degrees in Public Policy and Political Science from Duke University.

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Front Seat Cat
Front Seat Cat
2010
 

The Trump administration’s new guidelines under the Department of Homeland Security are not allowing foreign students to continue their studies on line while remaining in the U.S. The new guidelines are apparently requiring foreign students to return to the classroom or face deportation and continue on line studies from their country of origin. This is […]
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‘Twas the Year Before College

Sophie Dasko
Sophie Dasko
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Among many people my age there is the expectation of pursuing a college education. Understandable, as college is supposed to improve career opportunities, monetary success, social status, and general edification. In some regards this holds true, however the cost of attending university to obtain these things has proven to be greater than the ever-increasing price tag. 

My opinion is in no way indicative of a generation, or of the population of peers with whom I attended university. 

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Henry Racette
Henry Racette
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* Or: The Agony of Trying to Be a Supportive Father, Rather Than a Cantankerous and Judgmental Jerk Under the best of circumstances it takes a not inconsiderable effort on my part to resist setting everybody straight on a wide range of subjects. I’ve spent five of my six decades on Earth devoting a significant amount […]
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Walk-Ins Welcome w/ Bridget Phetasy #71

Gigi Levangie Wonders When “Life Isn’t Fair” Went Out of Fashion Explicit

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Hosted by Bridget Phetasy

Gigi Levangie, author and screenwriter, drops by for a chat that covers everything, including Swedish Death Cleaning, the Erehwon Phenomenon, aging in LA, the difference between a collector and a hoarder, and growing up “the crazy white b*tch down the street.” She and Bridget discuss why participation trophies are detrimental to children’s progress into adulthood, the impracticalities of college, why you shouldn’t give all your energy to who is in the White House, and how being a blank slate allows you to learn. Bridget tells the not-to-be-missed story of the Poodle Skirt Incident of 1992. Gigi talks about her career as a writer and how she’s managed to crank out 7 books. It’s a fun, fast and loose conversation between two kindred spirits. Be sure to check out Gigi’s latest book Been There, Married That.

Full transcript available here: WiW71-GigiLevangie-Transcript

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MISTER BITCOIN
MISTER BITCOIN
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http://walterewilliams.com/colleges-dupe-parents-and-taxpayers/ Colleges have been around for centuries. College students have also been around for centuries. Yet, college administrators assume that today’s students have needs that were unknown to their predecessors. Those needs include diversity and equity personnel, with massive budgets to accommodate. Preview Open
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Dan Wilson
Dan Wilson
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In 1998 and then again in 2008, Igor Panarin, a Russian scholar, predicted the disintegration of the United States. Basically, the idea is that the national debt would cause an economic collapse, wealthy states would refuse to hand funds over to the federal government, and the resulting strife of underlying divisions between races, have and […]
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City Journal's 10 Blocks

One Trade School’s Path to Success

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Hosted by Brian C. Anderson

Kay S. Hymowitz joins City Journal editor Brian Anderson to discuss Pennsylvania’s Williamson College of the Trades, a three-year school for young men offering a debt-free path to high-paying work—and the life skills to help them get there.

“Trade schools” have long had a stigma in American culture, but Williamson is no ordinary trade school: students wake up early to the sound of reveille and attend academic classes in coats and ties. As Hymowitz writes in City Journal’s autumn issue, “With its old-timey rituals, rigorous scheduling, and immersive culture, Williamson has a military-school feel.” But according to the students she interviewed, the prospect of a good-paying career makes the strict rules more than worth it.

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College Debt: Don’t Even Think of Asking Me to Pay

UPTOWNGIRL
UPTOWNGIRL
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Since everyone, including Presidential candidates, seem to be discussing canceling college debt, I was moved to offer some thoughts on the subject, none of which include canceling college debt, but some of which have been bandied about by grander conservative voices.

Now, my philosophy regarding this issue is simple: You made the deal, not the hardworking taxpayers who would be strapped with your “canceled” debt. Learn that lesson now; pay your own way.

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An Antidote to Conservative Gloom on Campus Free Speech

Peter Bonilla
Peter Bonilla
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FIRE President and CEO Greg Lukianoff is in National Review this week with a rather simple message for conservatives: There are actually a lot of things we can feel good about regarding the state of free expression on college campuses today.

The welfare of campus discourse is not perfect, of course, and its easy to sense that the issue is only getting worse–especially as free speech on campus gets no shortage of media exposure. The playing field has also changed in other fundamental ways. College students today are more aligned against free speech than they were ten or even five years ago, for reasons Greg and Jonathan Haidt expound on at length in their bestselling book The Coddling of the American Mind.

I’ve been at FIRE since 2008, and I can attest to those changes in the culture firsthand. I can also, however, attest to these meaningful changes FIRE has brought about nationally:

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Walk-Ins Welcome w/ Bridget Phetasy #36

Robby Soave Hopes that Sensible Liberals Will See the Dangers of the Approach Activists are Taking Explicit

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Hosted by Bridget Phetasy

Robby Soave is an associate editor and writer for Reason magazine and author of Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump which investigates the shift in activist culture on college campuses since Trump’s election in 2016. He and Bridget discuss why everyone hates libertarians, the spectrum of libertarianism, how both the Left and the Right see the other side’s extreme radicalism as a reason to up their own, and the unfortunate reality that tiny fringes on both side are so loud they drown out the majority of moderates. They talk consent culture, when speech became violence, weighing the positive gains from activism versus taking it too far, and the truth about hate crime statistics.

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