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Profile In Cowardice

, Deborah Lambert

In a recent column at mindingthecampus.com, author and commentator John Leo noted that although former Harvard president Larry Summers was given the boot by leftist profs for telling “unwelcome truths,” Duke University president Richard Brodhead would apparently not suffer the same fate after the Duke “non-rape” case.

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California Here I Go

, Malcolm A. Kline

Noted author, attorney and activist Phyllis Schlaffly has some characteristically sage advice for Golden State parents upset with the manner in which homosexuality will be handled in California public schools thanks to a law recently signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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Shakespearian Dystopias

, Bethany Stotts

Shakespeare’s commentary on science and society was so profound that the famous author Aldous Huxley copied themes wholesale from the Tempest in order to construct the American dystopian classic A Brave World.

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No Relation to Rhett

, Bethany Stotts

If all academic writing became infused with the “excitement” of Butler’s work, many outside the field would probably fail to recognize the change.

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Separate But Equal in Colorado

, Kiera M. McCaffrey

Last week the Catholic League criticized a bill introduced by Colorado Rep. Gwyn Green that would make it easier to sue private institutions in cases involving child sexual abuse. Our criticism centered on one objection: public institutions were given a pass.

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New Deal Role Models

, Malcolm A. Kline

Who compared President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal to both Stalinist communism and Adolph Hitler’s Nazi program in the same sentence? Why, none other than FDR himself.

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Recent Articles

Obama’s College Scorecard Puzzle

, Spencer Irvine

Wondering which colleges and universities offer degrees that give a bang-for-their-buck? That’s the idea behind the Obama administration’s college scorecard program, released by the Department of Education earlier in the school year. It was supposed…

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Tolerance: Now UC It, Now You Don’t

, Tony Perkins

America’s universities used to care about critical thinking. Now they’re just critical — toward conservative thinking. Last week, we talked about Carol Swain, the African-American professor under fire for suggesting that radical Islam was a…

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Trapped by Modern Language

, Malcolm A. Kline

Every year we hit the road to find out what English Departments are up to at the Modern Language Association (MLA) convention and always come back depressed. A look at some of the panels we…

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Mizzou Alumni Group to Promote Unity

, Spencer Irvine

The ‘Truth Matters MU’ group may be facing opposition from activists on the Mizzou campus: A newly-formed alumni group is working to change the conversation over racial issues at the University of Missouri from one…

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