by Micah J. Fleck When I was a freshman in college, I was in a research-based writing class that consisted of a very small student-to-faculty ratio and allowed us attendees, a roster that barely broke the double digits, to personally interact with our teacher and have meaningful conversations and debates rather than simply sit back…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By: Elias J. Atienza Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky) is joining efforts to end the Environmental Protection Agency by cosponsoring Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla) legislation. The Courier-Journal reports that Massie was first identified by the Pensacola News Journal when it reported on Gaetz’s bill as one of the cosponsors. “The…
by Micah J. Fleck A recent podcast by The Blaze correspondent Matt Walsh was recently posted alongside a related article semi-transcribing its contents on The Blaze website The title read as follows: “This is very simple: if you can’t afford college, don’t go to college.” Within the body of the article (a paraphrasing of the…
by Kitty Testa So you think 2016 was the worst year ever? In a global sense, I would nominate almost any year in the 20th century as being far worse than 2016. Over that 100-year span, approximately 200 million people were killed from war, deliberate famines and pogroms, and over 800 million perished in epidemics….
The War on Free Speech By Darnyell Wint You’ve probably heard the phrase “political correctness” or “PC” in your day-to-day political discussions. The alt-right movement, conservatives, right-wing media and even libertarians have often rallied against political correctness, otherwise known as “PC culture.” Some on the left have argued that claiming to fight political correctness is…
The Green Party is Further From Liberty Than You May Think Many people are familiar with Jill Stein. The Green Party candidate seems like the natural successor to Bernie Sanders’s revolution. For far-left socialists, this may be the case. For those interested in a free and productive society, however, Stein falls far below par. Here…
By Amber Randall Memphis teachers recently underwent “culturally responsive” training to learn how race impacts education. Staff members and teachers at Martin Luther King Jr. College Preparatory School attended a 10-hour training session, reports the Memphis Daily News. The training session, led by Facing History and Ourselves, aimed to educate teachers on how to promote…
Blake Neff A former student at Michigan Technological University (MTU) is suing the school, saying he was railroaded out of the university after an innocuous joke so the school could claim it was tough on racism. Matthew Schultz’s life suddenly fell apart last fall in the wake of racial protests at the University of Missouri and…
By Kody Fairfield The Communist forefather, and economics author, Karl Marx, who has been dead since 1883, still has appeal in United States higher education economic practices. It appears that Marx’s book The Communist Manifesto, written in 1848, is currently the most assigned economics book on US college campuses, according to a new syllabi database called the Open…
Aspiring Teacher Too Inclusive, Cornell University implies by Kyle Perkins The inclusive plan of aspiring dean Vijay Pendakur offends the student diversity chief by including all students equally. What specifically he aims to do is include all students in the discussions he’ll have as a dean if elected. As inclusive as this plan is, it appears to not…