A gathering of academics and human rights activists at Georgetown Law last week delivered some predictable broadsides at the Bush regime but also some unexpected critiques of the Clinton Administration.
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A Conservative in the Academy
If the common saying, “if you are young and not liberal, then you have no heart; but if you are old and not conservative, then you have no brain,” holds true, then why are our academies littered with aging Marxists and radical feminist professors?
LOST History
The true story of how the Law of the Sea Treaty came into being is a fascinating one.
Revisionist Reaganomics
Academics trying to rewrite the Reagan years may need magicians’ mirrors because the actual data don’t support the spin that these “public scholars” would dearly like to put on the 80s.
Florida State Fantasia
Accuracy in Media intern, Matt Hickman shares the story of one professor who taught his opinions, rather than the facts.
How to Spend on Education
The National Education Association wasted no time to use a recent study to affirm the unqualified success of the public-school system and to use it as ammo to further load up in its endless and tireless attack on vouchers and school choice. But there are many things the study doesn’t say, according to Star Parker.
War College Dove
IAEA’s call for a nuclear-free Middle East might sound good, but it is a trap.
MLA Abu Ghraib Fantasy
“The pleasure of romance novels sets us up to accept the violence and carnage of Abu Ghraib,” said Professor Teresa L. Ebert. From the 2005 Modern Language Association convention held in Washington, D.C.
Reagan for the Book
Ronald Reagan’s two landslide victories in presidential elections obscure the road he traveled to become the Republican nominee. His failed bid for the 1976 Republican nomination would propel him four years later to the nomination and ultimately the presidency.
Academia’s One-Way Revolving Door
Academics are still in a state of denial about the overwhelming dominance of liberal Democrats in higher education, despite the presence on many campuses of many once-high-profile partisans.