Articles by Accuracy in Academia

Ridiculous Item

Do Catholics Need Government?

“The Church that built hospitals, cathedrals, schools, soup kitchens, orphanages, and universities with no government funding in the nineteenth-century can’t seem to survive without it in the twenty-first.”
— Christopher Manion, Ph.D.,  Director of the Campaign for Humanae Vitae, a project of the Bellarmine Forum.

Current Wisdom

Those who can’t do…

“It was almost stereotypical of Vietnam decision makers to assume that what they could not do simply could not be done.”
—Hollins University political science professor Edward A. Lynch in his book, The Cold War’s Last Battlefield: Reagan, the Soviets, and Central America.

Campus Report

Make Football, Not War

Find out what, and who, is behind the war on football in the latest issue of Accuracy in Academia’s monthly Campus Report newsletter.

Current Wisdom

Alive & Tribal

“Tribalism in the Middle East is not only alive and kicking, it is alive and killing.”
—Dr. Mordechai Kedar, professor of Arabic at Bar Ilan University, in a forum on Capitol Hill sponsored by the Endowment for Middle East Truth.

Ridiculous Item

Doh!

“It’s alarming to me that most [Das]Capital-quoters I have encountered are white men.”
—Andrew Seal, Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at Yale. (The Chronicle Review, B16, November 22, 2013.

Current Wisdom

MOOCs: The Awful Truth

“Buried in all the hype about MOOCs is a somewhat surprising admission by some of the world’s leading universities—that their teaching methods may not be very good.”—Jeffrey Young, The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 15, 2013.

Current Wisdom

Why Ask Why

“Why does environmentalism tend to be so pious and self-serious?”—From Princeton catalogue description of course entitled “The Environment Can Be Funny”

Ridiculous Item

Even or Especially?

“The Undead are everywhere: on movie and television screens, in books, even in the academy.” –Princeton catalogue

Campus Report

Remembering Communism’s Victims

Accuracy in Academia remembers the victims of communism who did not survive it in the November issue of AIA’s monthly Campus Report newsletter.

Campus Report

Losing Ground To MOOCs

See how academia is reacting to the latest threat to it in the most recent issue of Accuracy in Academia’s monthly Campus Report newsletter.