Last week, I received notice of a meeting this week to review the university’s nondiscrimination policy as it relates to belief-based organizations (e.g., Young Democrats, Carolina Review, or InterVarsity). This committee was called after university administrators ruled that Psalm 100, a Christian a capella group, did not violate the current nondiscrimination policy…

That could be the alternative title to the recent AEI Outlook on the Federal Housing Authority. Key highlights: The FHA is leveraged 840 to 1 (which would mean it would have been already shut down by regulators if it were a private lender) The FHA uses accounting techniques similar to…

It’s easy to mock the left for their virulent obsession with “diversity” and “inclusivity.” Those words have been pounded into you since Day 1 freshman year (whoops, first-year) as a sort of post-modern summum bonum to which we must orient ourselves. Conservatives generally agree with diversity and inclusivity insofar as they…

A very revealing speech by CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/ConferencePa (the video is not embeddable, unfortunately). Here’s a rough transcript starting around 2:08:55- Question: I’ll be brief. You mentioned that with the AARA as it was moving through Congress, you provided projections based on a set of multipliers and econometric models…

…or something. In his most recent column, my friend and DTH columnist Mark Laichena bemoans the apparent lack of activism at UNC and asks whether this shows that UNC is less committed to social justice than “service hours and other indicators would suggest.” Even more strangely, he seems to dismiss long-term,…

UNC Students for a Democratic Society, a throwback to a time when the Left could actually get things done, seems to only be effective at providing comic relief. From making puppets to oppose the war in Afghanistan to having its leader run for mayor, you can’t help but laugh at…