Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Today’s entrant is Williams College, which U.S. News and World Report ranked as the best liberal arts college in 2016. It is true that, if you pick your way through the history courses, you can find a handful substantive history classes there. The vast majority of classes, however, are entirely
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Today’s entrant in my ongoing series examining the courses offered at America’s pricey liberal arts colleges, I offer an entry from Scripps College. For those unfamiliar with Scripps, founded in 1926, is a women’s college that is part of the Claremont Colleges, a liberal arts consortium of colleges. The other
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After assaulting you for three days with the “American Studies” offerings from obscenely expensive liberal arts colleges, I thought I’d give you a palate cleanser. Here is the choice of required classes that a Hillsdale student must take in order to major in American History. (Yes, Hillsdale actually offers “American
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Yesterday we visited the course catalog for Macalester, in the upper Midwest (St. Paul, Minnesota, to be precise). Today, we head West to Oberlin, in Ohio, yet another college that doesn’t offer either American History or American Studies classes. Instead, for those interested in studying their own country, Oberlin offers “Comparative
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Today’s offering from the History or English departments of a modern American college comes from Macalester, one of those pricey, private liberal arts colleges dotting the Midwest. As is true for all these schools, it’s jettisoned American History in favor of “American Studies.” This new focus means that the college
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With a child heading off to college, I’ve decided to start a new feature at my blog. As the spirit moves me, I’m going to quote, verbatim, from college catalogs. I’m not going to go the cheap and easy route of quoting from the Women’s Studies or Queer Studies departments.
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