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<title><![CDATA[Naomi Riley - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/44892.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Naomi Riley]]></description><category domain="44892">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Great Books and the Embrace of Complexity]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentary.org/articles/naomi-schaefer-riley/great-books-classics-naomi-kanakia/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Review of 'What'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s So Great About the Great Books?' by Naomi Kanakia]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Smart Move To Cut Nonprofit Funding]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/trump-funding-nonprofit-charities?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Reducing their reliance on public dollars would restore nonprofits' independence and make them more accountable to the communities they serve.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Eliminating Wokeness at Universities a Long-Term Battle]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2026/05/17/opinion/wokeness-and-dei-are-still-very-much-alive-in-higher-education/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ballots went out last month for leadership positions at the American Sociological Association. Here's some advice for candidates: Emphasize your Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion credentials.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[DEI Activism Could Be Pushing Donors Away]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/dei-philanthropy-progressive-nonprofits-robert-wood-johnson-foundation?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Diversity, equity, and inclusion priorities have transformed nonprofit governance into ideological enforcement.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fight Higher Ed Indoctrination Without Censorship]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/fight-leftist-indoctrination-in-higher-education-without-censorship/ar-AA1VO0yx</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is difficult, especially in higher education, for legislatures to control the academic curriculum while maintaining a veneer of academic freedom.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Private Foundations 'Partner' To Fund Disorder]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2025/09/15/opinion/stop-private-foundations-from-partnering-to-fund-deadly-government-criminal-justice-policies/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why was Decarlos Brown Jr. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' with a long and violent rap sheet, not to mention severe mental illness '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' free to stab Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' on a Charlotte light-rail train last month?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[College Board Games]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentary.org/articles/naomi-schaefer-riley/college-admissions-race-games/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From Cambridge to Berkeley, from Ann Arbor to Austin, college administrators and faculty are scrambling'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and it's not just because the Trump administration is slashing billions of dollars from their budgets]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gates Makes a Bet: Foundations of Future Free Market]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/3443762/foundations-of-future-free-market-bill-gates-foundation/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bill Gates is closing the doors of his foundation in 20 years.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Colleges Must Confront a Problem of Their Own Making]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/trump-columbia-funding-anti-semitism-bias-universities?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The federal government has some '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'legitimate concerns,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' said Columbia University interim president Katrina Armstrong'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' last week, after the Trump administration announced the withdrawal of $400 million in federal grants because, it claimed, Columbia had not addressed rampant...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Rule Puts Social Justice Over Child Safety]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/administration-on-children-youth-and-families-rule-child-safety?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Administration on Children, Youth and Families allows relatives of a child to become foster parents without having to meet the same standards required for non-relatives.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Freshman Enrollment Is Down--and It's No Wonder]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2024/11/23/opinion/freshman-enrollment-is-down-at-us-colleges-and-its-no-wonder/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[According to new data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, first-year enrollment dropped by more than 5% in 2024.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When 'Social Justice' Gets in the Way of Protecting Kids]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2024/10/16/opinion/another-child-is-dead-in-nyc-as-officials-care-more-about-social-justice-than-protecting-kids/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jahmeik Moore, 4, is the sixth child to die of maltreatment in the city in the last three months.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Professor MIA]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/professor-mia?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Unprepared and increasingly uneducated college students get little help from professors, many of whom barely seem to work anymore.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Warren Buffett's Missed Opportunity]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/warren-buffetts-missed-opportunity?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The mogul could have created a nonprofit to challenge the Gates Foundation's dominance.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Destigmatizing Drug Abuse Is a Dopey Idea]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/destigmatizing-drug-abuse-is-a-dopey-idea-da4cf979?mod=opinion_lead_pos7</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Riley</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[And We Do Classes, Too!]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/and-we-do-classes-too</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Harvard has increasingly become a place in Cambridge for bright students to gather'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'that happens to offer lectures on the side,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' a student named Aden Barton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' wrote'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Harvard Magazine'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' recently. Colleges and universities have traveled this path for some time. In 2011,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Dangerous Road]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/for-universities-bds-is-a-dangerous-road</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Higher education institutions may come to regret considering Israel Divestment proposals for their endowments.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Child Abandonment in the Name of Compassion]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/mass-general-brighams-misguided-drug-policy</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To fight systemic racism, the Boston area hospital system will discourage medical professionals from reporting mothers who test positive for drugs to child-welfare authorities.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Just Trust Us']]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/just-trust-us</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A new philanthropic movement suggests that social justice is more important than donor due diligence.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Go to College If the World Is About To End?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-go-to-college-if-the-world-is-about-to-end-climate-change-14305b07?mod=opinion_lead_pos11</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-go-to-college-if-the-world-is-about-to-end-climate-change-14305b07?mod=opinion_lead_pos11]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's a rhetorical question that suggests climate-change catastrophists have become a religious sect.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['I'm Afraid of the Kids We're Leaving Our Country']]></title>
							<link>https://www.deseret.com/2023/11/19/23964364/jack-miller-civics-founding-principles-history</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After selling his company for millions, Miller dedicated his life to making sure young people understand America's past and promise.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Serve Students, Not Institutions]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/serve-students-not-institutions</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[State attempts to protect historically black colleges and universities from competition are misguided.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[WV Budget Cuts Are a Taste of Higher Ed's Future]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/west-virginia-budget-cuts-are-a-taste-of-higher-eds-future-demographic-decline-enrollment-gee-6da3e0e1?mod=opinion_lead_pos6</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Gordon Gee is only slightly ahead of his time. A baby bust will mean far fewer students in coming years.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Closing Young Minds]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/closing-young-minds</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Roger Brooks describes himself as a loyal supporter of Durham Academy. A member of the class of 1980, he has donated money every year to support the 1,200-student North Carolina private school.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Foundational Error]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/big-philanthropys-leftward-drift</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pablo Eisenberg pushed the world of big foundations to the fringes of the Left'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'at the price of turning much of the field into an adjunct of government.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donor-Driven Journalism]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/donor-driven-journalism</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The headline of a recent'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' New York Post'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' editorial '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' "Associated Press Turns Prostitute" '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' decried the AP's admission that it had taken more than $8 million from organizations to publish articles about climate change. The donations allowed the AP to employ more than two dozen...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Less Charitable World]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/philanthropies-facing-a-bear-market</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What happens to philanthropic foundations in a bear market? It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a question that nonprofit leaders are asking these days. For years'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'in some cases, decades'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s largest foundations have been able to count on big returns in the stock market. But according to'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trouble With SAT-Optional College Applications]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2022/07/22/how-colleges-use-sat-optional-applications-to-covertly-impose-affirmative-action/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal reports'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' that 1.7 million students in the high-school class of 2022 took the SATs, up 200,000 from the previous year. The number taking the ACT went up, too. Yet almost three-quarters of colleges offering four-year-degrees have'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' gone test-optional or test-blind....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Student Debt and Regret]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/student-debt-and-regret</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.city-journal.org/student-debt-and-regret]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A recent Fed report suggests that the college debt problem isn't as bad as we think'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'though it might feel more burdensome to those not satisfied with their educations.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dazed and Confused at U.S. Colleges]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/remote-learning-a-disaster-for-college-students</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.city-journal.org/remote-learning-a-disaster-for-college-students]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Naomi Riley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Zoom classes have created a population of college students in dire need of remedial education.]]></description>
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