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.
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.
Read the articleLeading clergymen and women warned of the dangers of global warming at a congressional hearing on June 7th.
Read the articleIf college students are watching less television, their viewing habits could drastically cut down on their indoctrination time.
Read the articleCharles Darwin is partly to blame for eugenics, according to Discovery Institute senior fellow John West.
Read the articleOne reason why politicians spend more time talking about education reform than actually engaged in it might be that they benefit greatly from the status quo.
Read the articleSome social scientists seem to have a hard time distinguishing between the social sciences and hard science.
Read the articleWhen academics cross the line into advocacy they risk violating their own oft-stated goal of illuminating current controversies, such as immigration.
Read the articleAcademics 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.
Read the articleAmerica’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.
Read the articleAcademics 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.
Read the articleHealth care administrators and those who teach them try to fathom the low esteem they are held in without much success.
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