Outside the Beltway

A good idea, but do the ends justify the means?

The Affirmative Action debate is too divisive and largely misses the point.

The Supreme Court may have just found a way to end the debate over Affirmative Action in education.

UConn won another national championship. Their graduation rate remains embarrassing.

Should it matter if a candidate for office isn’t a college graduate? Georgia Republican David Perdue thinks so.

.Wonkblog’s “Wal-Mart has a lower acceptance rate than Harvard” is rightly drawing some eye-rolling.

An oldie but goodie from PhD comics is making the rounds.

Being a public intellectual doesn’t pay.

The Supreme Court turns down a case dealing with student’s First Amendment rights.

Most peer-reviewed research is crap.

Once again, a poll shows that large numbers of Americans, and most Americans, reject Evolution via Natural Selection as the explanation for humanity’s origin. How do we explain that?

While I concur with the “intent, justice, legality, and morality” of the decision, I nonetheless oppose it.

Once again, Chris Christie seems to be directly challenging the right wing of his party.

A GOP Senate Candidate in Georgia attempts to back track, and runs off the rails in the process.

Does your kid qualify for subsidized lunch? One candidate for Senate in Georgia wants to put them to work.

Nobel physicist Peter Higgs says he could not make it in academia today.

Is Harvard University the Lake Wobegon of the Ivy League or are Harvard students really that smart?

Once again, some groups in Texas are trying to block approval of a science textbook because it is too deferential to Evolution.

The iconic football program built by the legendary Eddie Robinson, is now a sad disgrace.

The NCAA has come to its senses regarding a Marine sergeant who wants to play college football.

Some classes at the service academies have been canceled due to the sequester.

The Supreme Court’s decision on Affirmative Action in education didn’t go as far as many thought it would, but it’s future in the near-term seems fairly clear.

A new blog, Rejection Letters of the Philosophers, “imagin[es] what the greats of history might have been faced with, had they been forced to publish or perish.”

Your latest Outrage Of The Day.

Leslie Cohen Berlowitz, president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is under fire for academic fraud.

NYU’s Geoffrey Miller has done a groundbreaking study connecting obesity, and particularly the consumption of simple carbohydrates, with failure to complete doctoral dissertations.

The insanity of “Zero Tolerance” policies.

President Obama delivered another powerful speech on race.

Tuition goes up as state funding goes down.