News

Taxing the oil industry and refusing access to important U.S. shale reserves would drive up both the Federal government’s debt and the U.S. unemployment rate, according to Kyle Isakower of the American Petroleum Institute.

In their search for villains, media elites, not to mention political ones, frequently overlook genuine malefactors.

It’s bad enough when recognized scholars go outside of their subject areas. It’s worse when they offer novel interpretations of their own alleged fields of expertise.

Although the U. S. Senate voted down the federal government’s latest attempt to expand government entitlements, academics remain just as adamantly for it.

An academic has recommended a plan of action for the new U. S. Congress that is actually partly grounded in reality.

Administrators at California State University’s Fresno campus may have been so anxious to pass the federal DREAM Act that they did not question the legality of the actions of the Student Body president promoting it, a self-described student activist claimed.

A pair of Harvard professors are resurrecting the work of an African-American writer so politically incorrect that she was virtually bypassed in the rush to inaugurate variations of black studies programs—Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston.

It turns out that Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez could have had a much closer relationship with the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) if the former head of the AAUP had his druthers.

College administrators continually cry poor, particularly to reporters and congressional representatives, but the federal government lays more largesse on them than most of us have seen.

A British journalist points out that what you don’t know about it can hurt you.

This is a hard list to narrow down, particularly since many of them wind up as courses.

The number of genuine intellectuals in academia goes down every year while the ranks of ersatz scholars grow.