In the academic world, the subversion of grants and gifts remains a problem, even when the benefactors are alive and kicking.
Monthly Archives For November 2007
Politically Correct Donations Only
The Smithsonian Institution has put on hold a $5 million donation from the American Petroleum Institute over objections from two of the museum complex’s Board of Regents including U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) about accepting money from the oil industry for a project on the world’s oceans.
Public School Child Abuse
An Associated Press investigation found more than 2,500 cases over five years in which educators were punished for actions from bizarre to sadistic.
Children of a Lesser Lessing
Believe it or not, the Nobel Prize authorities and the academic elite lionize a writer who denounces both communism and feminism. That’s because they honor her for the opinions that she held before she changed her mind.
LOST History
The true story of how the Law of the Sea Treaty came into being is a fascinating one.
Islamo-Fascism Memory Hole
Critics of the Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week (IFAW) events that author and activist David Horowitz presented last month should have actually attended some of the IFAW lectures.
University of Delaware Reeducation
With precision that would make the KGB jealous, the University of Delaware has been engaged in re-educating students through a campus diversity program that takes indoctrination to a whole new level.
United States Policy Made in China
United States’ involvement in Iraq, Afghanistan and the global war on terror are compromising the U.S. presence in Asia.
Dropout Factories
Are American high schools laboratories of learning or “dropout factories”?
History at Iowa was History at Duke for Mark Moyar
The University of Iowa’s history department and Duke’s history department have a couple of things in common. Both have made national news because neither has a Republican faculty member. And both rejected the application of Mark Moyar.