Scientific genius Albert Einstein posited a theory, other than the scientific ones he is known for, that has withstood the test of time: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Monthly Archives For February 2013
Academics Protesting Too Much
If professors spent as much time entertaining information from the other side as they spend denouncing charges that the academy is biased, there would be no academic bias.
Academic, Pay Thyself
When one sees an institution hemorrhaging cash, one wonders why said entity cannot curb spending.
Look what comes last
“In higher education the social values of social cohesion and progress, social welfare and service, the institutional values of economy and efficiency and the academic values of knowledge, truth, and increase in intellectual capital are…
City On Hill Deconstructed
It’s a safe bet that if Americans ever find that “shining city on a hill,” it won’t be in a college town.
American Exceptionalism Questioned
That an Ivy League historian takes exception to the idea of American Exceptionalism may not surprise. That the skeptic is not a man of the Left is rather noteworthy. “The term did not even exist…
Bipartisan Brush-Off
“In neither political party are realists, libertarians and Christians particularly welcome.”—UPenn historian Walter McDougall at the Cato Institute, February 7, 2013.
College Students Get Stung By ObamaCare
College students will soon wake up to the fact that they have been had.
God & Man @ Yale
When you look at left-wing bias in academia over time, you find that…
Follow The Boys
“A few decades ago, when we realized that girls languished behind boys in math and science, we mounted a concerted effort to give them more support, with significant success. Shouldn’t we do the same for…