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The problem is that half of the cream-of-the-crop courses are in Political Science while half of the worst are in history, economics and, yes, business administration.

Foreign policy is overrun by a “religion avoidance disorder” so severe that foundations must offer grants to encourage departments to integrate faith issue into their classes.

Could the Boy Scouts of the New Millenium be going the way of the Girls Scouts in the last century?

One possible unintended consequence of staying in Iraq for 100 years that John McCain probably never contemplated is the prospect of professors staging anti-war protests for the next century.

Patrick Garry’s recently published An Entrenched Legacy blames the increasing level of judicial activism on the precedents established under Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal.

We got an anonymous e-mail last week about Bethany Stotts’ MLA article, Shakesqueer. This is both an update and an answer.

Professors who try to impart lessons about the Civil Rights struggle may be missing one, namely, the efforts of elders who lived through it to get the younger generation to understand.

The University of Mary Washington breaks the Glass Ceiling in picking its new president but by how many stories?

Schools are his favorite venue but media darling Pete Seeger may want to pass on more than folk songs to the next generation.

As the presidential campaign heats up, the two Democratic contenders—Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are shoring up their base on college campuses, areas mostly off-limits for Republicans.

Academics themselves are admitting that it doesn’t work, even as various presidential candidates still float ideas to provide “universal health care.”

Finding a front-page 60s radical four decades after the fact is a bit like finding a needle in an academic haystack: You just have to stumble upon the institution of higher learning that the professional protestor sought shelter in.