By Ashley A. Smith. Historically black technical college in South Carolina may close due to sharp enrollment drops, raising questions about whether it receives adequate support and concerns about the hole it might leave. More...
Jefferson Statue Vandalized at Virginia
By Grace Bird. A statue of Thomas Jefferson was vandalized at the University of Virginia Friday, the day college the celebrates its founder each year. The words “racist + rapist” were spray-painted in red letters on the base of the statue. More...
Calls to Remove Hofstra's Jefferson Statue
By Scott Jaschik. Some student groups at Hofstra University plan a rally Friday to call for the removal of a statue of Thomas Jefferson, Newsday reported. Jefferson's ties to slavery are the rationale for those seeking to have the statue removed. More...
Do We Know What History Students Learn?
It's not enough to say that they pick up critical thinking skills, write Sam Wineburg, Joel Breakstone and Mark Smith. It's time to offer evidence. More...
L'histoire a besoin de grands duos
"J'ai immédiatement compris, à son regard, que je pourrais m'entendre avec lui. Il en fut, je crois, de même pour lui." C'est en des termes très proches de ceux utilisés par Michel de Montaigne pour expliquer son amitié avec La Boétie - "parce que c'était lui, parce que c'était moi" - que Frederik De Klerk m'évoque sa première rencontre avec Nelson Mandela. Il l'avait fait sortir secrètement de prison, pour le rencontrer à la présidence. Plus...
Spending While Liberalizing: Boosting Reforms Through Fiscal Stimulus
The energy crisis of the 1970s and the subsequent stagflation and recession that hit Western economies at the end of the decade and in the early 1980s laid the Keynesian view low. Policy makers began to see government spending as ineffective and even counterproductive when it came to boosting flagging output. They maintained the solution lay in just the opposite – unfettered markets. In other words, they advocated limited government, privatization, deregulation of markets, free trade and fiscal austerity. More...
Lessons from Australia’s National Productivity Boards
The post-war boom in the West and Japan is an epitome of this process working effectively. From the time the Marshall Plan was launched in 1948 to the oil crisis of 1973, productivity shot up as countries built infrastructure, modernized their economies, educated their masses and increased trade. Not surprisingly, productivity rose by around 5% per year in advanced economies in the 60s and 70s, with Western Europe closing the substantial lag it had had with the US following World War II. More...
Embrace File-sharing, or Die
Embrace File-sharing, or Die
As the summary reads: "A record executive and his son make a formal case for freely downloading music. The gist: 50 million Americans can't be wrong." What follows is an extended critique to the music industry's approach to copying (and by extension, the content industry as a whole). More...
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Étudier la Révolution française
Le renouvellement naît surtout d’un dialogue entre des traditions culturelles et scientifiques différentes. Dans le cas de la Révolution française, c’est d’autant plus passionnant qu’on touche à des éléments d’identité très forts pour les Français. On replace cette période fondatrice pour l’histoire hexagonale dans un cadre géographique plus vaste. On l’examine à côté d’autres révolutions qui se sont déroulées à la même époque, comme la Révolution américaine par exemple. Plus...