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<title><![CDATA[Naomi Schaefer Riley - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16298.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Naomi Schaefer Riley]]></description><category domain="16298">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[End of Affirmative Action Good for Black Science Students]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2023/07/08/ending-affirmative-action-is-good-for-black-science-students/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Schaefer Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Contrary to conventional thinking, students of color who are majoring in STEM programs benefit from then end of race-based admissions policies.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Adulting Is Hard, Even for Adults]]></title>
							<link>https://www.deseret.com/2022/11/12/23447279/adulting-parenting-young-adults-free-range-parenting</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Schaefer Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Children take longer to launch than in the past. How long should parents continue to help them?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Scoreless Admissions Set Minority Students Up for Failure]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/scoreless-admissions-set-minority-students-up-for-failure</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Schaefer Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Standardized test scores remain good predictors of academic success.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Are Not Safer at Home]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/lockdowns-impact-on-mental-and-physical-health</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Schaefer Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While making only a limited impact on Covid-19, lockdowns are taking a severe toll on physical and mental health.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[My Kids and Their Elite Education in Racism]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Schaefer Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A little more than a week after school ended in June, I ran into a friend who wanted urgently to know whether my children were okay. Her concern was not whether my middle-school son and daughter had caught the virus (she knew they hadn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t), or whether they had suffered from the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Belittled Women: Rise of White Guilt Chick Lit]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/05/26/belittled_women_and_the_rise_of_white_guilt_chick_lit_123738.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Schaefer Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Above right, from the home page of Race 2 Dinner. It caters dinners for white women at $2,500 each, where criticism of their racial attitudes is the main course.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reimagining the Public University]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/reimagining-the-public-university</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Schaefer Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In recent years, public universities have faced a troubling question: Can they remain financially solvent while serving their own residents at the low tuition rates that were common several decades ago? In other words, can they have their cake and eat it too? A recent survey of flagship...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Team Trump's Big Blow to the College Cartel]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2020/01/02/team-trumps-big-blow-to-the-college-cartel/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Schaefer Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Elite private colleges across the country now sport price tags in the $75,000 per year range, an amount beyond the reach of all but the most affluent families. Traditionally, they have held all the bargaining power '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' but that may soon change, thanks to a new initiative from Team...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why We Should Celebrate Private Giving Like GoFundMe]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/11/03/celebrate-private-giving-websites-like-gofundme-column/4105587002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Schaefer Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why are bureaucratic approaches superior to GoFundMe campaigns? Private efforts to help are not a sign that government has fallen down on the job.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Race Theory That Fails Imperiled Black Kids]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/09/27/disparate_impact_and_the_danger_to_kids_who_should_be_in_foster_care_120404.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Schaefer Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Five-year-old old Brandajah Smith grabbed the loaded .38-caliber revolver after her mother left her alone in their New Orleans apartment. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s still not clear why she pulled the trigger, whether it was an accident or related to the suicidal thoughts the child had expressed. But when...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Smears About David Koch Won't Erase His Legacy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/david-koch-philanthropic-legacy</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Schaefer Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sneers about the life and death of a libertarian donor will not erase his good works.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Injustice Funders: The Left's Charity Protection Racket]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/injustice-funders</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Schaefer Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dana Kawaoka-Chen, executive director of a new group called Justice Funders, issued a rallying cry in a recent talk with the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She said,]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Go to a Cheap College--or None at All]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/college-degrees-life-skills-apprenticeships/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Schaefer Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A bachelor's degree certifies a set of life skills you don't really need college for.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time for Colleges to Get Some Skin in the Game]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/student-loans-16167.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Schaefer Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We should stop using taxpayer-backed student loans to pick favorites in higher education.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Opening Minds on Campus]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/html/opening-minds-campus-15784.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Schaefer Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How random roommate assignments and other measures can expose students to unfamiliar people and ideas]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Putting Bill Gates on the Spot]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/html/putting-bill-gates-spot-15736.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Schaefer Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Liberals find even humanitarian philanthropy problematic.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Student Radicalism Doesn't Come From Professors]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/01/10/students-more-liberal-but-its-not-because-their-professors-james-piereson-naomi-riley-column/1012622001/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Schaefer Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why are young people growing more sympathetic to socialism? According to a survey conducted late last year by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, a third of Americans and as many as 44% of millennials would'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' prefer to live under a socialist system'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' than a capitalist one. This...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fostering the Habit of Giving]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/html/fostering-habit-giving-15522.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Schaefer Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The best way to increase charitable activity is to let people keep more disposable income.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Easy Abortion Is a Winner for Sleazy Men]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2017/10/06/easy-abortion-is-a-winner-for-sleazy-men/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Schaefer Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While the pro-abortion crowd celebrates the fall this week of Pennsylvania Rep. Tim Murphy, the rest of us got a useful reminder: Sleazy men make out pretty darn well, thanks to easy abortions. Mur'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Middling But Costly Colleges Are Struggling]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/why-middling-but-costly-colleges-are-struggling/article/2009421</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Schaefer Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When is a college acceptance letter not a college acceptance letter? When a school suddenly realizes that it has 800 more freshmen than it knows what to do with. This is what happened last month at the University of California, Irvine, which'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??in an effort to reduce that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Today's Liberal Kids Are Going to Ruin College]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2017/04/10/how-todays-liberal-kids-are-going-to-ruin-college/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Schaefer Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The college crackup is coming. That's the message we should get after reading about the two different kinds of kids who were admitted to elite universities this month. Take Martin Altenburg. A seni'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Foster Care Turns Into Hell]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2017/04/07/how-foster-care-turns-into-hell/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Schaefer Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The foster kids are not all right. But there are things we could be doing right now to make their lives better. That should be the conclusion of anyone following the case now being prosecuted again'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Latest Snake-Oil Fix for Minority Education]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2017/03/27/the-latest-snake-oil-fix-for-minority-education/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Schaefer Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In front of a packed room at South by Southwest this month, Emdin, a professor at Columbia Teachers College, explains how the Dinka tribe in South Sudan once suffered an outbreak of tetanus, which created lockjaw in their population. The elders removed young people'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s teeth in order...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[NYC &quot;Mega-Pastor&quot; Sees Faith Booming in the City]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2017/03/16/nyc-mega-pastor-tim-keller-sees-faith-booming-in-the-city/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Schaefer Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On a typical New York City day in 1989, there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d be reports of nine rapes, five murders, 255 robberies and 194 aggravated assaults. It wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t exactly the ideal destination for a theology professor living in a leafy suburb of Philadelphia with three young children. But...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Facing Down the Divorce Industry: Thank You, Ben &amp; Jennifer]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2017/03/13/facing-down-the-divorce-industry-thank-you-ben-and-jennifer/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Schaefer Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If there's hope for marriage in Hollywood, maybe things are looking up for the rest of the country. News came last week that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner have reportedly called off their divorce'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Liberal-Arts 'Bubble' Didn't Always Cause Such Trouble]]></title>
							<link>https://t.co/heNYj1MzUA</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Schaefer Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Colleges in places like Middlebury, far from the 'real world,' were once safe spaces for inquiry.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why So Few Donors for Critical Gender Studies?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/techie-largesse/article/2006871</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Schaefer Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Higher education had a very good year. That's the news from the Chronicle of Philanthropy, which reports that during an election year soaked in populism, some of America's biggest philanthropists bestowed an unusually large chunk of their charity on colleges and universities, including...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ridicule Didn't Work: The Sokal Hoax &amp; Its Lessons]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/ridicule-didnt-work/article/2006404</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Schaefer Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Twenty years ago, the academic journal Social Text published an article with the trendy title Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Herme'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'neutics of Quantum Gravity. The article claimed that quantum gravity is nothing but a social and linguistic construct that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Save More At-Risk Children]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2016/12/26/how-to-save-more-at-risk-children/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Schaefer Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Could Zymere Perkins have been saved? The answer, revealed in a recent 27-page report from the state Office of Children and Family Services, is clearly yes. There were five investigations into clai'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Truth About the Shutdown of Dakota Pipeline]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/bury-their-future-at-standing-rock/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Schaefer Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA['Today we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re celebrating. For the first time in U.S. history, the U.S. government is going to honor tribal sovereignty and the treaties that were signed by the U.S. government.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' So said Tomas Lopez, a representative of the International Indigenous Youth Council, on the day...]]></description>
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