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The often-esoteric Modern Language Association is commemorating a conflict too rapidly fading from collective memory—World War II— but the eclectic amalgamation of thousands of college and high school English professors is doing so in a manner that obscures key facts about the war, namely, what was at stake.

If you thought that the Modern Language Association was a highly politicized group whose real activities belied its innocuous-sounding name, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Environmentally conscious undergrads beware: some of the same people warning of the dangers of global warming now were predicting an ice age back in the 1970s.

Outside of Hollywood, there can be no greater holdout from the Republican message than the Ivory Tower, yet the information trickling out of surveys and studies shows that it did not come up short in the controversial practice of earmarking federal funds that the congressional elephants became associated with.

Tomorrow’s military leaders do not necessarily face a cakewalk through college.

Most schools spend more time on the politics of identity than do transgendered transvestites.

You would think that a policy that both liberals and conservatives find abhorrent would cease to exist.

Georgetown has hired widely known lecturers with as much teaching experience as outgoing UN Ambassador John Bolton but they have mostly been former Democratic office holders or political appointees in Democratic presidential administrations.

Believe it or not, there is a trio of trends in higher education that both left- and right-wing critics of academe are alarmed by.

Most data show that racial preferences do not improve the lives of black students on their own campuses yet educrats cling to affirmative action as though it were a religious relic.

The more elusive that the evidence of affirmative action’s success becomes, the more determined that the advocates of racial preferences in college admissions get in their quest to expand the program.

College and university administrators and their representatives seem to show up in Washington, D. C. with their hats in their hands as frequently as the capital city’s homeless do. Although the former group of supplicants seeks far greater sums than the latter crowd requests, the money seems to go just as fast.