Earning a scholarship to a college or university — whether that scholarship is academic or athletic — is quite the accomplishment, both for the student and the respective family. It relieves a huge financial obligation to be sure, but it also portends a positive future for the new…
The General Assembly will take up legislation to resolve the GenX water pollution case and judicial redistricting and reform when it returns to special session Wednesday. But what else is on the agenda, or even how often and how long lawmakers will meet, remains a…
RALEIGH — North Carolina is a national front-runner in protecting campus speech rights, a recent report from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education shows. FIRE, a nonprofit research and legal organization, examines more than 450 public and private universities each year.
The University of North Carolina’s governing body allows politics to seep into its decision making — a bad habit, Board of Governors chairman Lou Bissette says. It’s always been a challenge for board members to balance freedom and accountability, but today that challenge is…
The sober realization is that socialism is still challenging freedom — even with the irrefutable mountain of evidence of its abject failure and toll on humans everywhere it has been tried. Thanks to John Locke, we have a roadmap for freedom and opportunity that any of us can follow. …
My oldest daughter is a single mom to three and a successful engineer in a top company. She understands the power of education and is fighting for the best opportunities for her children. My son and his wife, parents to my other two grandchildren, are conservationists, and we argue about the appropriate level of government intervention to…
The University of North Carolina Board of Governors approved a free speech policy that allows for termination of professors and expulsion of students. The policy, approved Dec. 15, outlines the kind of speech that isn’t protected, which includes unlawful harassment, true and credible threats, or…
RALEIGH — Five hundred years after German monk Martin Luther launched what became the Protestant Reformation, his actions still exert a profound effect on the world. That effect includes a major impact on modern-day American political debates. Michael Gillespie, professor of political science and philosophy at Duke University, explained that…
Like just about every university and college these days, mine — N.C. State University — spends millions each year on a sprawling bureaucracy advocating racial, gender, and other types of “cultural” diversity. A university should be a marketplace of ideas to be discovered, understood, analyzed, and debated. Students and research produced…
The misguided and ultimately debilitating and tragic ban of alcohol that we called Prohibition was, at its core, about control. Control of our time, our choices, and our habits. Control of our money and our freedom to live and to prosper as we saw fit.
