Tag: education

Politics
- by Arthur Chrenkoff

WHY THINGS ARE EXPENSIVE – Well, some of them, at least. Education and health care in particular. Two graphs, the first one from “The Atlantic”, the second one from the …

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Politics
- by Arthur Chrenkoff

THE WILD ANTI-COLONIAL BOYS (AND GIRLS (AND OTHER 36 GENDERS)) – In the dispatches from the front of the culture wars: Students at The George Washington University (GWU) have launched …

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Politics
- by Arthur Chrenkoff

FREEDOM OF SPEECH FOR ME, BUT NOT FOR THEE – If the university-educated young people are our future, our future looks gloomy. From a recently released survey of 3,000 American …

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Life
- by Arthur Chrenkoff

SHOULD UNHAPPY GRADUATES BE ABLE TO SUE UNIVERSITIES – This story, surprisingly, doesn’t involve the Bachelor of Feminist Interpretative Dance: Pok Wong, who also goes by the name Fiona Pok, …

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Politics
- by Arthur Chrenkoff

PROFESSOR ACCUSED OF SEMITISM, DEFENDS HERSELF – The tragi-comedy in the letters section of the London Review of Books: There, the feminist American legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon can be found …

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Politics
- by Arthur Chrenkoff

THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS. THAT’S NOT HOW ANY OF IT WORKS – According to News.com.au, Rihanna shapes Australia’s foreign aid policy: This is what star power looks like. A tweet from …

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Politics
- by Arthur Chrenkoff

HOW DO YOU SAY “GET F***ED” GRAMMATICALLY? – The University of Washington, Tacoma’s Writing Center now instructs students that expecting proper grammar from others perpetuates racism and “unjust language structures.” …

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Politics
- by Arthur Chrenkoff

STIGMATISING INTROVERSION – According to one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the world, you’re not shy, just racist: Students who avoid making eye contact with their peers …

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