Just Say No to Radical Intimidation
UNC-Chapel Hill gets tough with protestors trying to disrupt a conservative speaker.
Author Profile
Jay Schalin
Jay Schalin joined the Martin Center in August 2007. A Philadelphia native, he began his writing career as a freelance journalist for the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey and wrote for several other papers in New Jersey and Delaware. Schalin has a B.S. in computer science from Richard Stockton College in New Jersey and an M.A. in economics from the University of Delaware.His articles have appeared in Forbes, the Washington Times, Fox News Online, U.S. News and World Report, Investor's Business Daily, Human Events, and American Thinker. His op-eds have been published by the McClatchy News Service and the Raleigh News & Observer. He has been interviewed on ESPN, National Public Radio, and UNC-TV, and his work has been featured on ABC News and Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor.
Schalin is a member of the National Association of Scholars and is on the Board of Directors for the Academy of Philosophy and Letters.
Articles by Jay Schalin
Is Teaching a Common American Identity Indoctrination? Part II
A Pope Center writer responds to a reader who equated his use of “common cultural identity” with left-wing indoctrination.
Is Teaching a Common American Identity Indoctrination?
A Pope Center writer responds to a reader who equated his use of “common cultural identity” with left-wing indoctrination.
No Time to Subsidize Silliness
UNC’s leadership should regard the budgetary process in lean times as a reason to cut waste.
Behind Closed Doors
The N.C. Senate’s secretive method for electing Board of Governors members screams for greater transparency—and maybe some new people in charge.
UNC Budget Holds Its Own
The governor’s proposed biennium budget deals only a mild blow to blow the university system and slightly expands community college funding.
The North Carolina “No Child Left To Determine His or Her Own Future” Act
Attempts to raise the age of compulsory school attendance will result in a loss of freedom and will prove ineffective.
Hollow at the Core
So-called improvements to N.C. State’s general education curriculum permit students to avoid an education instead of getting one.
What I Learned at Duke University’s “Gaza Teach-In”
Duke’s Palestinian supporters left out a few facts during a one-sided event.
The Unscientific “More-Women-in-Science” Movement
Biology, psychology, logic and economics get short shrift when feminists in academia seek numerical parity.