Those who treat the Cold War as a relic of the past ignore a salient fact: Communist regimes still exist, sometimes with nukes but always with human rights violations.
Monthly Archives For November 2012
The Prisoner & The Professor
A DePauw University sociologist is team teaching a course with a convicted murderer.
Yes We Can Indoctrinate
Education establishment types frequently accuse traditionalists of overkill when they claim that higher education really seeks to indoctrinate even when its denizens pretty much admit that is what they do.
Affirmative Action For Attitude
No matter what happens on Tuesday, in President Obama, academia has realized its greatest apex of influence, and created a poster child (albeit a middle-aged one) who is the living embodiment of its most monumental failure.
Another Professor For Romney
Believe it or not, we actually found a Romney supporter in academe, and at a state university no less.
That’s Kind Of Huge
“One of the lone drawbacks of affirmative action is that mediocrity can become an expectation.”— Khadijah Davis is a sophomore in the School of Nursing and Health Studies at Georgetown University.
America’s Religious Freedom Threatened
Until recently, Americans were used to hearing about threats to religious freedom in other countries.
Missing Boat On Diversity
The latest issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education features a supplement on Diversity In Academe that, like the industry it covers, gives a superficial treatment of the concept, at best.
Commemorating a Non-Conformist
Just one of the many misconceptions about conservatives, particularly in the academy, is that we all come off of an assembly line. To preserve this fiction, academics prefer to study us from a distance, if at all.
Obama’s American Classroom
See why the Obama years resemble a classroom lecture in the latest issue of Accuracy in Academia’s monthly Campus Report newsletter.