As I read Bernard Condon and Nathan Vardi’s fascinating recent article in Forbes, it would seem that Harvard and Lehman had rather similar investment philosophies - and ended up with similar results. Harvard, in its search for ever higher returns and a conviction that the good times would roll for...

One of the more resilient errors in policy analysis - in Canada, anyway - takes the following form: a) Public goods should be provided at zero price by the government. b) Therefore, goods provided by the government should have zero price. The former assertion is correct, but b) is a non sequitur: no...

Director : Neil Burger Release Date : 26 September 2008 (USA) Genre : Comedy, Drama, War Cast : Tim Robbins as Fred Cheaver, Rachel McAdams as Colee Dunn, Michael Peña as T.K. Poole, Molly Hagan as Pat Cheaver, Mark L. Young as Scott Cheaver, Howard Platt as Stan Tilson, Arden Myrin as Barbara ...

Is Jewish Education Inherently More Expensive? There is a common belief in the Orthodox world that a day school/yeshiva education is by design simply more expensive to offer than the education offered in public schools as the Yeshiva offers a "dual curriculum." As a person who not only attended publ...

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If you’re wailing about college tuition, blow your nose and get a grip. Paying tens of thousands of dollars isn’t your only path to higher ed: some universities, like Cooper Union, are free. This is no joke! Cooper Union charges $0 for tuition, and though room and board aren’t free...

Orthonomic Poppouri More Fundraising YWN reports that the Chinuch Atzmai system in Eretz Yisrael is broke. Per protocol, rabbis flew from Israel to Lakewood to draw attention to the urgent situation and an asifa was held in Lakewood. The solution (drum roll please) more fundraising. The address wher...

Over the last 30 years, American higher education policy seems to have been designed to ensure poor economic performance in this country. In the economic stimulus package now being discussed, we can begin to reverse that course. If higher education......

I’m rarely on the University of Alberta campus anymore, so I only heard about the SU’s Restricted Access campaign fairly recently. The main event takes place tomorrow morning at 7 AM, roughly an hour before the U of A Board of Governors’ meeting. Students will be gathering to send a message th...

I asked a young adult the other day, why do we still have people poor people in Canada, the response was "bad choices in life". This got me thinking about single mom's. They had a choice according to the abortion supporters, they could have killed the baby and gone on with life as if nothing had hap...