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Young conservatives watching the poll ratings of the only president they have ever voted for implode got some words of comfort, sort of, from a veteran conservative journalist last month at the Heritage Foundation.

Although “compassionate conservative” George W. Bush presides over an economy that boasts a lower unemployment rate than that of his predecessor, who was a self-described “progressive,” progressives argue that their philosophy has been proven to be sound.

Duncan Black, a noted internet blogger, recently offered his “liberal critique of the mainstream media” at the “Take Back America 2007” progressive conference.

In stark contrast to political science and economics lecturers in classrooms around the country, U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao spoke at the Heritage Foundation on June 26th, delivering a message of uncommon good cheer concerning the status and direction of “America’s Dynamic Workforce.”

Russell Kirk’s political theories proved essential to the modern conservative movement in America.

American immigrants of various races who want to fight for immigrant rights must collectively identify themselves under a “person of color” status, according to the publisher of ColorLines magazine, a publication covering race and politics in America.

The problem of poverty in America is not due to a problem of labor but is rather is the direct result of racial disparity, according to Professor Peter Edelman.

When economists become politically active, they risk betraying their chosen academic field even as they promote their favorite political causes.

There is something about global warming that makes even the most credentialed academics who are on record with their devotion to critical thinking completely avoid that practice or apply it in odd ways when it comes to the alleged “greenhouse effect.”

One sure sign that academia is failing in its mission can be seen in the lack of understanding by the young of the toll taken by communist regimes around the world throughout the 20th Century, that continues to accumulate to this very day. “Ask college students, and I have, how many Stalin killed and you get the answer, ‘thousands,’” University of Pennsylvania history professor Alan Charles Kors said on June 12th at the Heritage Foundation. “That’s like saying Hitler killed hundreds of Jews.”

Communism may be dead in Eastern Europe, but its influence is alive and well in various areas of the world, even though intellectuals in and out of the Ivory Tower would rather not talk about it.

Dr. Alan Charles Kors of the University of Pennsylvania delivered a powerful speech at the Leadership Institute last Wednesday regarding the trend of American institutions of higher education toward increasingly liberal rule.