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3 weeks ago | 
aei.org | Frederick M. Hess |Mark Schneider |Jonah Goldberg |Greg Fournier
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3 weeks ago | 
aei.org | Mark Schneider |Robert Pondiscio |Frederick M. Hess |Greg Fournier
Post OECD Participation Is a Dull Tool for Improving American Education Event The Hidden Beliefs That Shape Your Students: An Introduction to Primal World Beliefs Event “The Child Is Not the Mere Creature of the State”: Pierce v.
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1 month ago | 
city-journal.org | Frederick M. Hess |Greg Fournier
The Trump White House has taken the paddle to some of the nation’s most famous universities over anti-Semitism, politicization, and other dubious behavior. But the resulting fireworks have obscured a more prosaic cause of campus dysfunction: college students are bored and aimless because they have too much time on their hands. As we explain in a new Manhattan Institute issue brief, today’s students spend far less time on academics than previous generations.
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1 month ago | 
aei.org | Frederick M. Hess |Greg Fournier
American colleges and universities are being scrutinized as never before. From rising tuition costs and allegations of plagiarism at the highest levels to concerns about low rates of completion and the state of free inquiry on campus, four-year colleges in the U.S. are under the microscope. Yet one crucial issue that is too rarely accorded the attention that it deserves is simply what colleges expect of their students.
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1 month ago | 
manhattan.institute | Frederick M. Hess |Greg Fournier
American colleges and universities are being scrutinized as never before. From rising tuition costs and allegations of plagiarism at the highest levels to concerns about low rates of completion and the state of free inquiry on campus, four-year colleges in the U.S. are under the microscope. Yet one crucial issue that is too rarely accorded the attention that it deserves is simply what colleges expect of their students.
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2 months ago | 
thedispatch.com | Nick Catoggio |Megan Dent |Kevin Williamson |Greg Fournier
A multifront attack on due process. Published March 17, 2025 Scroll to the comments section Audio versions are only available to subscribers of The Dispatch. Join Today! to listen to this post. Due process in the federal justice system depends on many players. Some, like judges and lawyers, are more enthusiastic about the concept than others, like law enforcement and the prison system. But each has duties under the law to protect the rights of individuals.
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2 months ago | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Reneau |Peter Gattuso |Kevin Williamson |Greg Fournier
Claims of genocide underscore the country’s uncertain future. Published March 16, 2025 Michael Reneau speaks with Nadine Maenza, president of the IRF Secretariat, about the complex situation in Syria following the recent overthrow of Bashar al-Assad. They discuss the religious and sectarian dynamics at play, the hopes and fears of various religious communities, and the challenges facing the country’s new leadership under President Ahmad al-Sharaa.
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2 months ago | 
thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Peter Gattuso |Kevin Williamson |Greg Fournier
Against the martyr grift. Published March 15, 2025 An overserved and hungover Jonah Goldberg gets into arguments with ChatGPT, picks fights with free speech “martyrs,” and offers a unified theory of Trumpism, all in a day’s Ruminant. Show Notes:—Jim Geraghty for National Review: “Why the Ukraine Cease-Fire Deal is No Cause for Celebration”—Jake Meador for The Dispatch: “The Perils of Positive Thinking”—The Wednesday G-File in question
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2 months ago | 
thedispatch.com | Greg Fournier |Lyman Stone |Terence Kealey |Charlotte Lawson
Almost immediately after assuming the presidency for the second time, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order freezing all foreign aid. In the weeks since, according to the New York Times, “The whole system of finding, diagnosing and treating tuberculosis . . . has collapsed in dozens of countries across Africa and Asia.” The consequences of this system collapse in places like Kenya are dismal:Family members of infected people are not being put on preventive therapy.
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2 months ago | 
thedispatch.com | Valerie Pavilonis |Kevin Williamson |Greg Fournier |Jonah Goldberg
Culture Consciously or not, modern art is considering the afterlife. Published March 15, 2025 Ever heard of the artist Otobong Nkanga? No? What about Rick Riordan? Yes, you’ve probably heard of him, writer of the Percy Jackson children’s adventure series, where the Greek and Roman gods are simple and zany and no one asks too many questions about infidelity. I confess that Riordan’s prose never wowed me.
