The conservative pundits seeking to accumulate intellectual bona fides by aping the intelligentsia’s call to “forget Ronald Reagan” only succeed in proving themselves to be as vacuous as the allegedly educated elite.
Read the articleWe have assembled something of a bottom 10 list, sort of a reverse U. S. News & World Report ranking, from the more than 100 professors a year whose antics we cover.
Read the articleA library featuring the personal
papers of anti-communist hero Whittaker Chambers will be opened on the site of
his farm.
Academics 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 articleSecurity risk at New York Times finds audience at Brown.
Read the articleAlthough the controversy surrounding the Bush Administration’s No Child Left Behind (NCLB) program is usually portrayed as a classic clash of conservative and liberal political philosophies, dissatisfaction with NCLB is spreading across philosophical lines.
Read the articleNY Times publisher, Sulzberger delivered an odd address to the graduating students of SUNY New Paltz.
Read the article“No bias here,” claim many members of the professoriate, but some students and trustees have a different perspective.
Read the articleWe often ask the question, What would Reed do?
Read the articleIf you’re wondering what American students are learning about history these days, it’s worth spending a few minutes reading some entries from Non Campus Mentis.
Read the articleTeachers are using students, from kindergarten through college, as foot soldiers in environmental campaigns, whether they should be in class or not.
Read the articleRanked with Harvard and Yale as one of America’s most liberal law schools, Duke is embarrassed of producing a Republican President.
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