Buton Folsom is one of America’s premier historians of ingenuity, economics and industry. His books and peer-reviewed articles are read widely. But Folsom takes a decidedly different perspective from most other humanities and social-science professors. His works often criticize regulation and government control. Recently a student group at government-supporting Davidson College (in North Carolina) arranged …
Category: 1984 on American campuses
Entering a modern government college campus is like entering a concentration camp.
Oct 18
Government schools increasingly ban Halloween due to political incorrectness concerns
There is nothing constitutional about public schools. Early Americans knew nothing of them. They educated themselves according to their needs, with private schooling or home schooling. But public schools have taken over America’s education over the past century. And through such schools, government incessantly promotes its agenda of central planning, government control and regulation. Now …
Oct 16
Government universities suppress free speech by imposing different conditions based on content
Many government universities provide public event space for rent or for use by student groups. Generally student groups and clubs can reserve meeting halls for free while nonstudents and outsiders must pay for the use of facilities. But many government colleges have a habit of discriminating among student organizations and speakers based on the content …
Sep 09
UC Berkeley offers counseling services for students impacted by neoconservative speaker
America’s government colleges have become temples of elitism, privilege, intolerance, socialism and government worship. Any American becomes instantly less free upon walking onto a government college campus. Many campuses have speech codes, restricted ‘first amendment zones’ and internal intelligence units which are paid to hunt down anti-government, free-market, or politically incorrect thought. Now there are …
Jun 15
Illinois government nears bankruptcy, halts almost all payments for road construction
THE STATE NOW SPENDS MORE ON ITS UNIVERSITY PENSIONS THAN IT DOES ON ITS UNIVERSITIES Socialism is a curse that should be wished only on a hated enemy. A generation ago, Illinois was known for farm and manufacturing production, and was one of the wealthiest areas of the United States. But years of political domination …
Jun 08
Police search and pat down EVERY STUDENT at one “public school” in drug search
America’s government youth concentration camps (er, . . . ‘public schools’) have become prisons for both the body and mind. Metal detectors are found at many entrances and students are subjected to a steady stream of pro-government indoctrination. Now there is news that police in one Georgia public “school” patted down and searched EVERY SINGLE …
May 12
Fresno State Professor tells students there is no freedom of speech on a college campus
America’s government colleges and universities promote a steady stream of government worship and control. The very second that a person walks onto a government college campus, he becomes less free. Here is a video of a professor at Fresno State university telling student protesters that there is no freedom of speech on a college campus. …
Mar 18
As much as half of all published “science” is untrue
The prestigious British medical journal Lancet is out with a statement indicating that as much as half of all published “science” is untrue. See here. Reasons vary. But most of the blame falls on the role of government, and the religion of government supremacy, which dominates universities worldwide.
Mar 18
GOVERNMENT UNIVERSITIES NOW THREATEN TO PUNISH FACULTY WHO TELL STUDENTS TO CONSIDER ALTERNATIVE VIEWPOINTS
There is no valid reason for taxpayers to own universities. Every argument that is commonly given for government colleges is provably false. Modern government universities (1) are less free than their surrounding environments, (2) are more expensive than most alternatives, and (3) promote a steady one-sided stream of elitism, central planning, and government control over …
Jan 16
English professors promote elitism, socialism and government at “Modern Language Association” conference
The sorry state of university-level humanities was on display in Philadelphia recently when the Modern Language Association held its annual meeting. The MLA is the largest organization of English professors in the world of American academia. The “study of English” at most colleges has gradually degenerated into a field of socialist, elitist, pro-government propaganda. See …