Not content to push global warming theories on students even when temperatures don’t support them, Florida Gulf Coast University is trying to censor skepticism off of its campus.
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Of Scowls & Scribes
The acknowledgements of the passing of reporter Robert D. Novak last week were appropriately respectful, for the most part, albeit with an occasional backhand. For example, in his column in The Washington Post, Howard Kurtz, in the main, tried to give him his due.
AP Historical Amnesia
Academics and students exhibit a pervasive amnesia toward the pro-Stalin actions of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (ALB), a group of American volunteers who fought against General Francisco Franco and his Nationalists during Spain’s civil war.
Undergrads Training for Unemployment
Colleges routinely get away with marketing claims that would make most other industries ripe targets for federal investigators and/or congressional inquisitors.
Communism Unmasked
The new book, Spies, The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev (Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2009) provides us with valuable new information about how the KGB penetrated the United States government in the 1930s and 40s.
The Unforgettable Great Communicator
The conservative pundits seeking to accumulate intellectual bona fides by aping the intelligentsia’s call to “forget Ronald Reagan” only succeed in proving themselves to be as vacuous as the allegedly educated elite.
Redefining Human Rights
When Nobel-prize winning economist Amartya Sen released his book Development as Freedom in 1999, his argument that democratic freedoms had an economic component in the developing world was greeted with acclaim. Now a World Bank employee building upon Sen’s conception of positive and negative freedoms is arguing that the twin discourses of human rights and development need to reach an accord.
Setting the Record Straight
The winner of Accuracy in Media’s 2009 Reed Irvine investigative journalism award passes on some valuable life lessons to the next generation.
Searching for Joe McCarthy
The winner of Accuracy in Media’s 2009 Reed Irvine lifetime achievement award for investigative journalism gives aspiring journalists some free lessons worth more than the ones that they pay big bucks for in top-name universities.
Economic Fundamentalists
A Baptist minister gave a sermon on economics that the ACLU and the Americans United for the Separation of Church and State would surely regard as crossing the theological divide.