How Pervasive Is Academic Corruption? | ZeroHedge

Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times,

Whew, what a week it’s been for higher ed!

The Claudine Gay debacle at Harvard has raised some fundamental questions about academia in general. She was president of the university, traditionally seen as the pinnacle of American academia.

But a careful look at her extremely thin academic publishing record was packed with unattributed borrowings from other authors in her own field.

Once all of this became public, (more…)

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‘To Make A Snowflake’ | ZeroHedge

Authored by J.A.Frascino via AmericanThinker.com,

A snowflake forms when cold water droplets freeze onto a nidus of dust or pollen in the atmosphere, creating an ice crystal.  

Additional droplets are added in an infinitely variable pattern, forming a unique structure.  

The product of a perfectly natural process taking about 30 minutes, a snowflake is a fragile entity, blown by the (more…)

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Politicized, Progressive Big Philanthropy | ZeroHedge

Authored by Michael E. Hartmann via RealClear Wire,

Steve Miller’s December 12 RealClearInvestigations article, “How Tax-Exempt Nonprofits Skirt U.S. Law to Turn Out the Democrat Base in Elections,” is both jarring and informative and helps frame many important questions facing philanthropy, conservatism, and conservative philanthropy.

Miller describes the general size and scope of activities being conducted a progressive nonprofit infrastructure that has “taken on (more…)

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