The content of the standard education changes from generation to generation, but seldom, if ever, has it deteriorated as it did in the twentieth century.
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Federal Speech Codes
The federal government is poised to adopt or at least preside over something politically correct college administrators have yet to achieve—national speech codes.
Union History’s Other Side
Violence and coercion are at the heart of the union movement.
The Life of Buckley
At Accuracy in Academia’s June 14 Author’s night, Heritage Foundation scholar Lee Edwards described the late William F. Buckley Jr. as the St. Paul of the conservative movement.
Bard Thou Never Wert
DUNN LORING, VA —Rarely do I feel gratitude and even affection, toward a book with which I profoundly disagree. But such is the case with James Shapiro’s Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? (Simon & Schuster, 4/6/2010, 339 pp), a study of the Shakespeare authorship debate. Shapiro, who teaches at Columbia University, accepts the gent from Stratford as the real author, so I had to part company with him on page 8.
Yawning at Subsidiarity
One of the most interesting sideshows of the healthcare debate was the dustup between the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops—which opposed enactment because the law subsidizes abortions—and the Catholic Health Association (CHA), which lobbied tirelessly for enactment, claiming that the law does not violate Catholic teaching on abortion.
Mann Overboard
Accuracy in Academia has identified several concerns regarding the inquiry committee’s report and Penn State’s ongoing conflicts of interest in conducting Professor Mann’s investigation.
Generically Challenged
The Hatch-Waxman Act of 1984 was passed to help bring generic drug competition into the pharmaceutical market, but panelists at a June 23rd Center for American Progress (CAP) discussion argued that the U.S. government should be doing more to regulate pharmaceutical companies.
Obama Administration Shuns Poor
President Obama frequently discusses his commitment to quality education for all American children but the administration’s action with regard to the successful voucher program in Washington, D.C., holds this commitment open to question.
Are There Any Limits on Bad Behavior?
We have entered a strange new era. Failing businesses – whether financial or industrial – are bailed out by taxpayers, and individuals who took loans they could not afford are subsidized by those who lived within their means.