All Posts Tagged With: "ivory tower"
Trembling in the Ivory Tower: Excesses in the Pursuit of Truth and Tenure
If you listen to spokesmen for the higher-education establishment, America’s colleges and universities are the envy of the world, propelling our economy forward with brilliantly educated young minds. Look only at the bright spots in American higher education and you might well conclude that such praise is merited. But to assume that something is true [...]
8Jul2010 | George C. Leef | 1 comment | ContinuedA Triple Whammy for Austrian Economics
They say that when economic times are good businesses can get away with sloppy practices. In the intellectual world, however, it seems that sloppy thinking prevails in desperate times and important distinctions get thrown out the window. A good example of this appeared recently in a March 4 New York Times article titled “Ivory Tower [...]
19Aug2009 | Sandy Ikeda | 9 comments | ContinuedAcademic Socialism Versus the Free Market
Academia has long been thought of as the marketplace of ideas, the arena where truth may be pursued through dispassionate discourse and openness to competing views. Yet higher education in America has moved a great distance from this ideal and its practice. (Click title to read more…)
1May2005 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | Continued-
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