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Perhaps you can call it the economics of optimism: a George Washington University economist predicts there will be job gains under Obamacare.

If you find recent college graduates to be computationally challenged (i. e., unable to do basic math), don’t expect that to change anytime soon.

The U.S. Constitution gets the Rodney Dangerfield treatment (“no respect”) in academia probably more than anywhere else.

President Obama may have spoken warmly about charter schools but don’t expect his administration to do anything to aid them anytime soon.

A Wharton School economist went a long way towards diagnosing the causes of the explosion in federal disability insurance costs but couldn’t quite bring himself to go the distance.

An African-American sociologist recently offered a diagnosis of America’s first African-American president.

Parents, students and taxpayers ultimately footing the bill for the epic cost of college should have buyers’ remorse.

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.

On 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.

Although universities have long been envisaged as incubators of new ideas, in actuality they usually provide life support to concepts long-time passed.

Author 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.”

Apparently, 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.