Alternatives to higher education have been getting more and more coverage recently, and with good reason. The average college student who graduated in 2015 has roughly $35,000 in debt, the amount of learning students are actually gaining during their four years is dubious, and companies are increasingly looking for skills and experiences that the average person doesn’t […]
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Campus Reactions: Kim Davis Refuses to Issue Same-Sex Marriage Licenses
Photo: businessinsider.com Those Who Oppose Kim Davis are the Real Bigots There are multiple issues to unpack in the aftermath of the Kim Davis controversy. A clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky, she refused to issue marriage licenses to a gay couple, maintaining that to do so would violate her conscience and religious liberty as a […]
George Reisman: Defender of Capitalism | A Reading List
Today we look at a regretfully unknown figure in economics to “millennial libertarians,” George Reisman. I write “regretfully,” because Resiman is an absolute giant. Taught directly under Ludwig von Mises and Ayn Rand at various points in his life, Reisman developed an interest in the constitution at the age of 5, and began his study of […]
A Summer and Fall Semester Reading List for Free Thinkers
Here’s a controversial opinion: the “Michigan Difference” is little more than a collectively reinforced illusion — a clever bait and switch. The simple fact is that most of you are not getting the education you’re paying for. Your ideas won’t be seriously challenged, your world views won’t be shaken and you will leave college no better […]
The Law, Perverted!
The following is excerpted from Frederic Bastiat’s, 1848 pamphlet, The Law. Enter Bastiat The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of […]
#BBUM, An Intolerant History
The Being Black at the University of Michigan movement – a name by which one can immediately grasp the character of it’s organizers – and the subsequent BSU protests and demands, have their roots in an advertisement by a fraternity for a “Hood Ratchet” themed party on campus. Citing racism on campus against black students, […]
Ukraine Crisis Intensifies: Possibly A Second Cold War?
As the world eagerly watches from afar to see what unfolds in Ukraine, the University of Michigan’s Ukrainian Student Association is particularly concerned with the recent turn of events. Many of the 15 student members have relatives in Kyiv (Kiev), as well as other Ukrainian cities. According to the association’s president, Ivanna Murskyj, the greater […]
Guilty Middle Class Wolverines Out To Prove They Aren’t Racist By Passing Resolution For Students of Certain Ethnicities
Barely a week after the Central Student Government decided to back the Black Student Union and it’s demands for a university-wide war against racism – or what the BSU and the Coleman administration have defined to be racism – a CSG assembly of bumptious, would-be-politicians, passed a resolution which addresses minority enrollment, the creation of a scholarship for […]
Libertarians Receive Pat on the Back from Coleman Administration
On January 27th, members of the Young Americans for Liberty sent a letter to the Coleman administration which called the diversity program at the university “skin deep,” and asked the administration to clarify whether it was committed to intellectual diversity, or only “diversity…within a set of narrow parameters.” The email cited the disparity between liberal […]
Making It Up As He Goes
“We have to pass the bill so we can find out what’s in it,” Mrs. Pelosi once remarked in a rather unlettered response to concerns over the Affordable Care Act. Foresight might have appended: “And so Mr. Obama can change it whenever it pleases him.” The Treasury Department announced yesterday that it would be further […]