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When academics help to craft a law, they can take a leave of absence to shepherd it through Congress, then go back to class to proclaim its virtues. The rest of us get to live under the statute.

Rather than being victims of police brutality, a new video shows that Occupiers at UC Davis knew they were going to be pepper sprayed and didn’t mind it.

In what might be a record, 22 Obama Administration officials have already left the government for academia.

When elites pass judgement on the efforts of police to keep the peace on campus it is the students on the quad who are put at risk.

When the Modern Language Association, America’s largest association of English professors, demonstrates a sudden concern for the rising debt level of college students as they did in a recent issue of Inside Higher Education, these sentiments bear closer scrutiny.

The right to free speech is protected in the First Amendment to our Constitution, but there are times when what is said, taxes the limits of one’s patience.

When a noted libertarian scholar concocted an economics quiz which conservatives passed and liberals failed, right-wingers who read it high-fived each other, figuratively speaking.

It’s always awkward when a Catholic college or university invites a pro-choice speaker to lecture on campus, at least to Catholics outside of its gates.

One of many ways to gauge the political tilt of academia is to see how many cabinet members from past presidential administrations have obtained academic berths.

In academia, it seems, nothing succeeds like failure.

The gap between what academia promises and what it actually delivers is becoming ever more apparent by the day.

A blogger at the American Enterprise Institute has suggested a set of principles to guide education reform. The problem is, well-intentioned and logical as they are, they  look a lot like No Child Left Behind.