And if you have to go into debt for that, we’ll talk about how to do that, but a uniform policy. Steinbaum: The uniform is what’s important and what is contrary to the status quo where, you know, one of the myths that we attack in the paper is the idea that charging different students […]
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You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. The Trump administration has laid siege to colleges, cutting their funding and launching ridiculous investigations. But the administration took advantage of preexisting frustrations with higher education, says Marshall Steinbaum, an economics professor at the […]
Read MoreFormer Boles Lady Hornet Bailey Miller, who just finished her college career with 28-4 Arizona State, is joining an Austin team in an indoor professional volleyball league. The Austin team in the League One Volleyball league announced the addition of the 6-3 Miller. Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement As an outside hitter this past season at Arizona […]
Read MoreThis is where the argument’s authoritarian core becomes unmistakable. The lament is not really about pull-ups, haircuts, or even VMI itself. It is about the loss of a social order in which hierarchy was enforced informally by culture rather than formally by law—and in which men, trained separately, were habituated to rule. What is mourned […]
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Right-wingers have filled this void with a baseless narrative that Cook was, as the chairman of the College Republicans put it in a post on X with nearly two million views, “targeted for her conservative beliefs, hunted, and killed in cold blood.” To be clear, there is zero evidence, as of this writing, that Cook […]
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Right-wingers have filled this void with a baseless narrative that Cook was, as the chairman of the College Republicans put it in a post on X with nearly two million views, “targeted for her conservative beliefs, hunted, and killed in cold blood.” To be clear, there is zero evidence, as of this writing, that Cook […]
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“But you know, at some point, size will win, generally,” Trump said, referring to Russia’s advantages. “And this is a massive size, uh—you—when you take a look at the numbers, I mean, the numbers are just crazy.” There is some evidence that the White House’s peace plan may have come directly from the Kremlin: Several […]
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“But you know, at some point, size will win, generally,” Trump said, referring to Russia’s advantages. “And this is a massive size, uh—you—when you take a look at the numbers, I mean, the numbers are just crazy.” There is some evidence that the White House’s peace plan may have come directly from the Kremlin: Several […]
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Now that Trump, the Department of Justice, and the wider executive branch are exercising unprecedented power—with the assistance of an impotent Congress and a craven Supreme Court—conservatives have simply swapped the nanny administration for the nanny state, using legislative majorities at the state level and threats from the Department of Justice to lean on colleges […]
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Seamster: Yeah. I don’t want to spin… Bacon: Not defending it, I’m not praising it. Seamster: But it is a common tactic, as you said, among authoritarian governments. Because if the whole—if your world relies on the production of propaganda—then having an educated population, specifically, who can analyze and identify propaganda as such, that is […]
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You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. President Trump and his administration are cracking down on universities, trying to force schools to drop inclusive policies if they want to continue to receive federal funding. But there is a separate effort targeting […]
Read More“My sister said, ‘How is she going to get deported if she’s a Native American?’ and ‘We have proof,’” Jacobo’s sister Maria Nunez told the Arizona Mirror. “They said, ‘Well, we don’t know because we’re not immigration and we can’t answer those questions. We’re just holding her for them. So, when they pick her up […]
Read More“My sister said, ‘How is she going to get deported if she’s a Native American?’ and ‘We have proof,’” Jacobo’s sister Maria Nunez told the Arizona Mirror. “They said, ‘Well, we don’t know because we’re not immigration and we can’t answer those questions. We’re just holding her for them. So, when they pick her up […]
Read MoreWashington State fired athletic director Anne McCoy after 18 months on the job, the school announced Wednesday. McCoy served as interim AD in the wake of former AD Pat Chun’s decision to take the same position at University of Washington, starting in March 2024, and the school hired her as its full-time athletics steward in […]
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Now, those who work at the Department of Education should probably know that every major, non-religious, and state college and university in the United States has had policies protecting academic freedom since the 1950s, when state and federal leaders frequently purged faculties of professors who studied or proclaimed positions that ran counter to the mainstream […]
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If it’s not clear enough by now, the MAGA right is only doing to left-leaning academia what they perceived left-leaning academia was doing to people like them, with students taking cues as they always have. There are only two operative principles behind the surveillance and attacks on higher education, neither of which have anything to […]
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If it’s not clear enough by now, the MAGA right is only doing to left-leaning academia what they perceived left-leaning academia was doing to people like them, with students taking cues as they always have. There are only two operative principles behind the surveillance and attacks on higher education, neither of which have anything to […]
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OTTAWA, Ill. — Jumping from a plane, not ideal right? Well, the divers at Skydive Chicago would tell you it’s an experience everyone needs to have. The skydivers met last week for the first time in three years to attempt record-breaking dives. More than 450 people flew out of their planes into different formations in […]
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The news media has a powerful role in democracy, even if it often doesn’t acknowledge that, says Kathy Roberts Forde, a journalism historian who teaches at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. As she explained in a recent episode of TNR’s Right Now With Perry Bacon, in the Jim Crow era, many white-owned newspapers in the […]
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The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater recently announced its Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Scholastic Honor Roll for the 2024-2025 academic year. The university named more than 400 student-athletes to the honor roll. Students named to the honor roll earned a GPA of 3.0 or higher. The honor roll includes 231 men and 197 women student-athletes across 22 […]
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The Trump administration is relentlessly attacking colleges, threatening to cut funding from universities across the country unless they crack down on pro-Palestinian activism, the rights of transgender students, and initiatives targeted to minorities in particular. Colleges are cutting deals with the administration instead of standing up for their independence and academic freedom. And some Democrats, […]
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And the Post has in some ways changed its management structure. The paper has gone from an owner who almost never intervened in journalism decisions to one who blocked an endorsement of Kamala Harris and then revamped the Opinion section in a pro-Trump direction. Bezos owned the Post in 2017 and does now, but his […]
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Leftist activism at the Big Ten is still thriving. In February, student groups at the University of Washington—including none other than the campus chapter of SDS—mobilized to protest the presence of ICE on campus. At the University of Nebraska, student activists, who work with Planned Parenthood, distribute abortion care kits and contraception. Students across the […]
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Edwards had said moments earlier that anyone interested in seeing the book could simply reach out to Epstein’s executors, Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, and, “If they didn’t just voluntarily turn over the book out of fear of reprisal, Congress could issue a subpoena to their attorneys at Patterson or at Troutman—those are the two […]
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Edwards had said moments earlier that anyone interested in seeing the book could simply reach out to Epstein’s executors, Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, and, “If they didn’t just voluntarily turn over the book out of fear of reprisal, Congress could issue a subpoena to their attorneys at Patterson or at Troutman—those are the two […]
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SCRANTON – Xaiden Schock has competed since before he started school. As a youth, the Wallenpaupack graduate played football and wrestled. Through the years, he built a passion for both sports. As a varsity athlete, he built an impressive resume in both, but something had to give. So, when faced with the decision between the […]
Read MoreSelect an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. The University of Hawaii and Chaminade received honors Thursday when the National Association of Basketball Coaches handed out academic awards. The Rainbow Warriors’ roster of 15 combined for a program-best 3.43 grade point average […]
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LAS VEGAS >> The Mountain West has emphasized that building a permanent football stadium is an essential part of the University of Hawaii’s membership. The Rainbow Warriors have been without a permanent home venue since 50,000-seat Aloha Stadium was shuttered for spectator-attended events in December 2020. Although demolition of Aloha Stadium is projected to begin […]
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U.S. permanent resident and reggaeton artist Leamsy Izquierdo has revealed that conditions in “Alligator Alcartraz,” where he is detained, are as inhumane as advertised. “There’s no water here for people to bathe. I haven’t showered for four days, there’s no water, no toothpaste, they don’t let you out for even a minute to get some […]
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How do the Department of Justice, or the Department of Education, or Stephen Miller, or Donald Trump define DEI? They don’t. This allows them to ignore the true, subtle, essential nature of the actual efforts and lets a specter of anti-white, anti-male discrimination take over the public mind. DEI is whatever bigots fear it could […]
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