Outside the Beltway

Harvard has overtaken Princeton to retake the top spot in the US News college rankings.

General Stanley McChrystal has been hired to teach leadership at Yale.

Under pressure from the Feds, the NCAA is cracking down on colleges who put women’s games ahead of men’s games, which some say relegates them to “warm-up act” status.

Southern Guilford High School in North Carolina briefly had a SHCOOL zone, thanks to a contractor’s gaffe.

For-profit universities are defrauding their students. Indeed, it’s their business model.

Can a public university expel a student for a religiously-motivated aversion to homosexuality?

Some lawyers make a fabulous salary right out of law school. Most don’t.

Rural whites are outperformed by Jews and Asians and passed over by blacks and Hispanics in the name of “diversity” by elite universities.

A bizarre rant in American Spectator contains some interesting thoughts about the nature of America’s political elite.

Unpaid internships aren’t education and give kids of wealthy, well connected parents even more advantages. Should we get rid of them?

Most academic journal articles are unreadable dreck. So, why are we demanding that more of them be produced?

Having a computer in the home does not have a significant impact on academic achievement, according to several new studies.

The Fox News headline “University of Illinois Instructor Fired Over Catholic Beliefs” is grossly misleading.

A Russian spy may be stripped of a degree he earned at the Kennedy school under a stolen identity.

Americans are more supportive of their tax money going to law enforcement than welfare.

A picture is more misleading than a thousand words.

A lot of Americans don’t know that the US gained its independence from Great Britain. How can this be? Is it a liberal conspiracy?

Another depressing poll demonstrating American historical ignorance.

Political science journals, particularly those which exist to provide scholarly insights into matters of public policy, ought to be freely available online.

LSU is facing some potential deep cuts in its budget.