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Economic Redistribution Ahead
The ongoing concern that climate change initiatives mask a concerted attempt to initiate global economic redistribution was bolstered by the Bali Conference.
Ford Foundation Underwrites Diversicrats
Believe it or not, a left-leaning foundation has taken notice of the risk to free speech on American college campuses.
Frankenstein Video Game
A professor at the U. Of Southern California has devised a procedure for integrating “educational role-playing games into the classroom.”
Greening Title IX?
In their ongoing quest to see who can be most politically correct, Ohio university administrators have devised an intercollegiate competition that can literally qualify as a trash sport.
Erykah Badu in the Classroom
Interdisciplinary writing may offer a way to overcome value judgments and examine literature from “multiple perspectives” incorporating social, political, and economic factors, argues Professor Akua Duku Anokye
Lost Years
Charles Enderlin’s The Lost Years: Radical Islam, Intifada, and Wars in the Middle East 2001-2006 comes as a fresh of breath air in these oft-polluted journalistic times.
PC WC
If you think the level of academic conferences can’t sink any lower, read on.
Vietnam Remembered
On May 10, 1981, at the first rally on any campus to honor the Vietnam veteran, I resigned my position as professor to protest “The damage done to the vet by the media of the 60’s and the liberal university”and started Vietnam Veterans for Academic Reform.
Gender San Francisco Style
A San Francisco area middle school recently cancelled a “gender-switch” day in response to complaints from parents.
Recent Articles
The American Identity Crisis
Accuracy in Academia’s next author’s night speaker, the former head of the U. S. Civil Rights Commission, sees a danger in America’s emphasis on diversity. “To be sure, we are wonderfully diverse—in race, gender, sexual…
Mizzou’s Social Media Policy is Very 1984-esque, Written by Its Law Students
Great take from the College Fix: Law students wrote a breathtakingly autocratic, sloppy social-media policy that brings to mindThe Simpsons Halloween episode where Ned Flanders rules a 1984-like alternate reality that enforces constant smiling. After…
Games Academics Play, Literally
Those who thought academia couldn’t get more trivial might do a face palm over the trend toward gaming in higher education. “Several courses in my department at the University of Michigan have been gamified,” Kentaro…
Mizzou Communications Professor Tries to Forcibly Remove Student Reporter from Public Area
Melissa Click, who is an assistant professor of mass media at the University of Missouri, tried to get other students to forcibly remove a student reporter out of the protester’s camp area in the public quad…
Tim Wolfe Resigns from the University of Missouri
John K. Wilson on the American Association of University Professors blog offered his own interesting take on the UMizzou controversy: Tim Wolfe, president of the University of Missouri, resigned this morning under intense pressure. I’m…
Mizzou Football Players Split on Practice Boycott
ESPN’s Brett McMurphy with the latest: A Missouri Tigers player said Sunday night that the entire team is not united over the decision to stop practicing until grad student Jonathan Butler ends his hunger strike….
Mizzou President Resigns Today
Guess the media criticism was too much for Tim Wolfe.
Black Mizzou Football Players Go on Strike until University President Resigns
University of Missouri’s football team may not play this Saturday, which could incur a $1 million penalty to be paid to Brigham Young University due to their scheduling contract: Due to what they deem inadequate…
Manifesto by UC-Merced Stabbing Student Praises Allah
Fox News reported: A handwritten manifesto carried by a California college student whose stabbing spree Wednesday left four wounded bore names of his targets, a vow “to cut someone’s head off” and as many as…
Politico Reporter of the Ben Carson Scoop Debacle has History of Anti-GOP Behavior
Good piece at the College Fix: Kyle Cheney, the author of the recent (stealthily edited) Politico article on Ben Carson’s recollections about West Point, was once an editor of Boston University’s The Daily Free Press….
Book Review
Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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The Origins of Political Correctness
Emerson College: ‘Homosexual’ is Offensive to Gays so Stop Using It
Self-Identifying Marxist Professors Outnumber Conservatives as College Professors
Ayn Rand Reconsidered
Black Lives Matter Lists “White Supremacy, Patriarchy, Capitalism” Among Reasons for Orlando Attack
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