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An Accident of Planned Growth

…“Master Inventor” by Jay Schalin The Quest for Economic Growth by Jane S. Shaw Magic Elixir for Growth or Economic Snake Oil? by Jay Schalin True Believers by Jay Schalin


The Myths of an Ivory Tower Watcher

Editor’s note: The original article that initiated this response, “Myths of the Ivory Tower,” can be found here. Jay Schalin’s final word in response to Professor Railsback, “Back to the…




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…book of poems, Wolf Intervals, was published in the Poiema Poetry Series (Cascade Books) in 2022. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife and children. Jay Schalin jschalin@jamesgmartin.center Senior…



Political Correctness: My Top Ten

…professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, organized a student convention to rewrite the U.S. Constitution. As Jay Schalin reported at the time, the new constitution’s preamble had phrases like “working for collective…



T is for Texas…and Transparency

…that the public wants to be sure that “money is being spent appropriately.” In 2008, the Pope Center proposed something similar to the Texas law. Senior writer Jay Schalin urged…


A Comfortable Life?

In June, the Pope Center released a paper by Jay Schalin measuring the teaching loads of faculty in the University of North Carolina system. His report, which  sampled a variety…