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Academic Doublethink in Action


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.

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Violence without Guns

In the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre and the call for more gun control and firearm-free zones, at least one economist is offering an independent analysis that is worth considering.

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Bias of Border Studies

When academics cross the line into advocacy they risk violating their own oft-stated goal of illuminating current controversies, such as immigration.

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Norman Rockwell Deconstructed

Academics are trying out a new way to make peace with American icons, namely by turning them into liberals long after their death. Such seems to be Johns Hopkins University (JHU) professor Richard Halpern’s approach to the art of Norman Rockwell.

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Ethics in Government, Not

America’s first openly gay governor becomes the latest Democratic officeholder not to let the revolving door into academia hit him on the way out of elected office.

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Revisionist Reaganomics

Academics trying to rewrite the Reagan years may need magicians’ mirrors because the actual data don’t support the spin that these “public scholars” would dearly like to put on the 80s.

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