We have assembled something of a bottom 10 list, sort of a reverse U. S. News & World Report ranking, from the more than 100 professors a year whose antics we cover.
Monthly Archives For January 2008
The World Government Four
In our end-of-the-year reviews, we feel that we must take special notice of a quartet of professors who have been actively working to erode American national sovereignty through the sort of proposals that come dangerously close to becoming reality no matter how conceptually divorced they are from it.
Education Department Constitutionally Adrift
Larry P. Arnn, president of Hillsdale College in Michigan is looking for a way to put morality back into America’s classrooms, a goal he believes the Department of Education has abandoned.
Shakesqueer
The recent Shakespeare panel at the 2007 Modern Language Association (MLA) convention, ironically titled “Shakesqueer,” featured four queer theorists presenting articles soon to be published by the notoriously liberal Duke University press.
ADHD Breakthrough
A new study suggests that Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children may be a matter of maturity.
Linguistic Imperialism
“By pretending to inject a position located in between the right and the left, multilingual American literature studies attempted to ally themselves with an ostensibly neutral position,” a Rutgers professor admitted at the Modern Language Association convention.
War on Terror Complex
The War on Terror is yet another example of the state using a national emergency to promote its own growth, according to Robert Higgs, a Senior Fellow in Political Economy for the Independent Institute.
Common Learning Agenda Blues
Those who argue that colleges and universities lack standards may be incorrect but only technically.
Legend In Their Own Minds
Thanks to the so-called mainstream media, “the most quoted college professor in the land” just became more heavily cited, although for no apparent reason.
Inheriting The Darwinian Wind
The National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine have mounted yet another attack on the scientific theory of intelligent design, publishing an 89-page book titled Science, Evolution, and Creationism.