What started out as a classic left-right confrontation is evolving into an interesting split.
Monthly Archives For October 2013
Corrosion of Ivory Tower
The view of academia from outside the gates may be bleak, but from inside, it’s much worse.
Catholic Colleges: Quo Vadis?
Catholic colleges operating in the secular world could go the way of Protestant colleges in the last century or so.
The Real Thought Leaders
When you cover ersatz intellectuals day in and day out as we do here at Accuracy in Academia, it is refreshing to meet genuine scholars.
Stalin, A Bloodless Editor
After all these decades, an academic finally found something negative to say about Soviet dictator Josef Stalin: He was a tyrannical…editor.
Ultimate Man of Letters
Last weekend, the Philadelphia Society met at its regional meeting in Atlanta to celebrate the life and thoughts of one of its members—Russell Kirk, arguably one of the pre-eminent men of letters in the twentieth Century.
Last Subsidized, First Cherished
In the private sector, the rule of thumb in economic downturns is, “Last hired, first fired.” Get government involved and that principle gets turned on its head.
Common Core Rollbacks?
Common Core, the Obama Administration’s education reform program, has been exposed as untested, subpar and even outdated by international standards, despite the federal government’s sales pitch to states.
Will Work For Theories
The notion of a college education as a path to material success is starting to require artificial respiration.
Ike & The Constitution
In April 1953, Senator John Bricker of Ohio introduced the Bricker Amendment to the Constitution. In the wake of the secret “Executive Compacts” that FDR and Truman had made with Stalin during World War II.