A problem faced by both Accuracy in Academia and its big sister organization Accuracy in Media: Our goal—an accurate elite—seems ever more elusive by the year.
Read the articleOn higher education, as on a host of issues, U. S. House Republicans offer unique criticisms, then wind up proposing solutions to crises that resemble those of the Democratic Party.
Read the articleAlthough universities have long been envisaged as incubators of new ideas, in actuality they usually provide life support to concepts long-time passed.
Read the articleAuthor M. Stanton Evans got an early lesson in his law of inadequate paranoia: “No matter how bad you think things are, when you look into them you find that they are a lot worse.”
Read the articleApparently, we’re living in the age of bubbles—housing, financial, etc. The only thing they don’t have is their own reality show. The next one is about to burst all over the legal profession.
Read the articlePerhaps today’s “thought leaders” would think more clearly if they spent more time studying the thinkers of the past.
Read the articleWhen you read history after you graduate, you invariably come away with a startling realization: Everything that you have been taught is wrong.
Read the articleIf students feel obliged to refrain from relaying tales of campus indoctrination, the dwindling ranks of conservative professors abide by an even more restrictive code of silence: Their livelihood is at stake.
Read the articleA Notre Dame theologian is downplaying the history of the persecution of Christians.
Read the articleSome may think we exaggerate how far a distance English Departments have traversed from Shakespeare and Milton. Just have a look at the program for the College English Association’s Middle Atlantic Group conference to be held this weekend at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland.
Read the articleA fascinating anomaly of the academic Left: No matter how many institutions they and their policies dominate, they still view themselves as downtrodden, even in the circles in which they are dominant.
Read the articleColleges are widely applying racial preferences to the apparent benefit of no one.
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