In his controversial book Kill Your Teacher, Rabbi Nachum Shifren offers a provocative account of his nightmarish days as a teacher in the politically-correct and corrupt Los Angeles Unified School District.
Book Reviews
A Marriage Textbook?
The Meaning of Marriage: family, state, market and morals is a collection of ten scholarly essays aiming to rethink and re-present the case for marriage as a positive institution.
Liberal Academic Reconsiders Reagan
News flash: a tenured professor at a state university rates Ronald Reagan as one of the five greatest presidents of all time.
Unprotected Collegians
Dr. Miriam Grossman, psychiatrist at UCLA and author of Unprotected- A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student, talks about how school counseling has gone astray.
Global Warming Iced
Thanks to senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute Christopher Horner, and his new book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism, there is now a resource to deflate the global warming hype.
Eco-Freak U
A new book exposes environmental scares that have become textbook mainstays but bear more than a passing resemblance to urban legends.
Unsung History
Although they are set there, Vesta Sithole’s memoirs are unlikely to be covered in an African Studies course.
Academic Watch List
Yale may have extricated itself from one controversy when it rejected the application for a Bachelor’s degree from a former Taliban official already taking classes at the new Haven campus. Nonetheless, today’s sons of Eli foster an atmosphere in which indulgence of terrorism can flourish.
Real Men Studied
R. Cort Kirkwood’s Real Men: Ten Courageous Americans to Know and Admire more than lives up to its title.
Remedial Nation
If other American industries performed as well as the Education sector, the raft of Chapter 11 bankruptcies would clog courts in the United States for decades to come.