While some second and third graders in South Hayward California may not know a noun from a verb, many of them, with school garden projects, know the difference between spinach and bok choy.
Recent Articles
800-lb Gorilla Explained
With political fragmentation at home and distrust abroad, how can Americans successfully advocate for themselves?
MSA Still At Large
Although they portray themselves as more religious and fraternal than political, the Muslim Students Association is frequently so politicized that in days of yore it might be called subversive.
Fascism Was Anti-Religious Too
Professor Gelernter views World War II as a faceoff between pagan state cults in Germany, Russia, and Japan and the two “Christian” nations of Britain and the United States.
Unfriendly Fire From Left
As the title of his book indicates, it is big-name Democrats Horowitz primarily takes to task for setbacks in the war on terror.
Our Progressive Generation?
Are young American voters becoming increasingly progressive? That’s what Campus Progress, a liberal activist group, is arging in their newest study.
How to Commit Marriage
A couple of professors from the University of Chicago think they have found a way out of what they see as a national impasse over state marriage laws.
Benching Parents, Year-Round
Should parents be key players in year-round school assignment decisions? An ill-conceived appellate court decision this week says they shouldn’t.
Professors Against the War on Terror
Lustick’s article amounts to little more than an anti-American attack on par with Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s sermons.
Straight Kids Unite
This year, gutsy kids stayed home from school on the Day of Silence (with their parents’
permission) and let school officials know why.
Recent Articles
Former Amherst College Lecturer Accuses Supervisor of Trying to Coerce Her to Sleep with Students to Increase Enrollment
It really sounds like a dispute over her firing as a lecturer at the college and declining enrollment in their Spanish courses, but we’ll see how the lawsuit plays out.
Questioning Academic Authority on Guns
Maybe it’s time we revived that phrase “question authority.” “The president’s ironclad confidence in the conclusiveness of the science, and therefore the desirability of ‘common-sense gun safety laws,’ is echoed widely with every new mass shooting, from…
USC Professor: White Men Can’t Police Their Imagination, Leads to Black Mens’ Deaths
Claudia Rankine, an English professor at the University of Southern California, was interviewed on one of her poems where she highlights racism in white male minds.
American University Pushes Sororities to Blacklist Fraternities which are being Investigated
The College Fix has more on this: It’s no secret that colleges are itching to punish fraternities for the slightest allegation of a violation, and now those under official disapproval at American University will suffer…
Still Halloween at Yale
Academics are still using the Halloween costume controversy at Yale as a teachable moment. One wonders what they will learn. “A white Ivy League lecturer has resigned following an uproar over an email she sent…
Missouri Lawmakers Call for Mizzou Professor Melissa Click’s Firing
She was the professor who asked for ‘muscle’ to remove a student reporter from the quad on campus during a demonstration, which video went viral and resulted in Click losing her courtesy appointment in the…
Alabama is Drug Testing On-Campus College Fraternities
Via Campus Reform: The University of Alabama (UA) has allegedly been testing on-campus fraternity brothers on a “quiet” basis, according to AL.com. Starting at the beginning of this past academic year, the University of Alabama…
St. Louis University Mandates Every Department to Identify Actions to Make It More Inclusive
Sounds like an onerous exercise in academia: Every academic department at Saint Louis University has been mandated to “hold a discussion and identify at least one action its members” will take to make the university…
Germany Thinking about Lifting Ban on Mein Kampf
The “lure of the forbidden” is the central argument to lifting the ban on the book in German classrooms, which outlined Adolf Hitler’s anti-Semitic rhetoric.
Feds Seek Diversity in Middle East Studies Programs
The Department of Education has started requiring universities that receive federal funding for Middle East Studies centers to report on how their programs are including diverse perspectives and a wide range of views. This is…