Overlooked in the media coverage of and academic debate about physician-assisted suicide: it’s not the people most likely to receive it who are promoting it. “It’s the well off and healthy who are calling for it,”…
Events
Remembering Stan — By Diana West
Today, at the Heritage Foundation, 14 people from various walks of M. Stanton Evans’ life gathered to honor him. To say there was more laughter than tears is only to note the hilarity of so…
M. Stanton Evans uncovers Stalin’s Secret Agents in the New Deal Years
Journalist M. Stanton Evans, who passed away at age 80 this week, spoke about his book, “Stalin’s Secret Agents” at our Author’s Night on June 18, 2013.
Digital Age has Hurt America’s Ability to Write Well
Nostalgia is overrated, a Harvard psychologist says. “The bad-dominates-good phenomenon is multiplied by a second source of bias, sometimes called the illusion of the good old days,” Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker said at a…
Al Jazeera Makes an Appearance at the MLA
Haidar Eid, an associate professor at al-Aqsa University in the Gaza Strip, who also has a blog with Al Jazeera, pre-recorded his remarks to the Modern Language Association (MLA) convention in Vancouver, Canada. Eid apologized…
MLA Out of Touch with Reality
At the Modern Language Association (MLA) convention in Vancouver, Canada, the degree to which many professors are divorced from reality was brought into sharp focus. Few panels at the conference that draws thousands of English…
When MLA gets Religion Wrong
When professors do pay attention to religion, they usually get it wrong. “Conservatives would rather have [social welfare] provided by religious organizations, which is incompatible with other aspects of Catholic social teaching,” Robin Sowards, an…
Tim Scott: D.C. School Choice = Fewer Dropouts
Waiting lists are one sign of the desirability of school choice. Graduation rates are another, and they seem to rise in tandem. In Washington, D.C., the “waiting list for students in the DC area for…
Adjunct Professors Feel the Pinch at MLA
Despite its claims of proletarian empathy, it turns out that the Modern Language Association (MLA) does not cut many breaks to those struggling within its ranks. At the MLA’s annual meeting in Vancouver, Canada this…
Free Speech Confusion at the MLA
The academically free have different ideas of what free speech means than the rest of us do. At the Modern Language Association’s 2015 convention in Vancouver, Canada, Rosaura Sanchez [pictured above at a protest], a…