“By pretending to inject a position located in between the right and the left, multilingual American literature studies attempted to ally themselves with an ostensibly neutral position,” a Rutgers professor admitted at the Modern Language Association convention.
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ADHD Breakthrough
A new study suggests that Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children may be a matter of maturity.
Shakesqueer
The recent Shakespeare panel at the 2007 Modern Language Association (MLA) convention, ironically titled “Shakesqueer,” featured four queer theorists presenting articles soon to be published by the notoriously liberal Duke University press.
Education Department Constitutionally Adrift
Larry P. Arnn, president of Hillsdale College in Michigan is looking for a way to put morality back into America’s classrooms, a goal he believes the Department of Education has abandoned.
Inheriting The Darwinian Wind
The National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine have mounted yet another attack on the scientific theory of intelligent design, publishing an 89-page book titled Science, Evolution, and Creationism.
Legend In Their Own Minds
Thanks to the so-called mainstream media, “the most quoted college professor in the land” just became more heavily cited, although for no apparent reason.
Common Learning Agenda Blues
Those who argue that colleges and universities lack standards may be incorrect but only technically.
Pleasure Now or Never
Art History Professor Christopher Reed offered his own unique conception of pleasure in the workplace by highlighting the social virtues of homosexual references in the television sitcom Will & Grace and a YouTube video titled “Shoes.”
Academic Freedom Without Limits
Largely avoiding discussions of students’ academic freedom, the panel argues that, especially among politicized subjects, professors’ academic freedom is threatened by student evaluations, scarce tenure, and even their own professional code of ethics.
Queen of Cuba Dethroned
A new book shows us that communist spies are not, as some professors would have us believe, a figment of our imagination.
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Health Care Rationing, from a Professor’s Perspective
It’s really dangerous, for patients anyway, when policy wonks decide what type of health care is necessary. “In popular understanding, rising health-care spending is often viewed as an inevitable consequence of advances in medical technology,…
Ignoring Climate Change = Sin, says Religious Studies Professor
Someone is a bit over-the-top regarding the intersection of religion and climate change/global warming.
“Politically Correct” is Now a Microaggression, Wisconsin University says
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee says that “political correctness” is an example of causing microaggressions.
Ole Miss Student Senator Faces Backlash after Voicing Support for State Flag
Political correctness strikes again, this time, over the Mississippi state flag.
Reading Racial Tea Leaves at University of Maryland
In this era of racial unrest, academic efforts to achieve understanding are welcome. Unfortunately, opportunities to misinterpret abound in academe. “Younger generations have made great strides,” Liam Farrell of the University of Maryland writes in…
USC may ask for $100 Million Scholarship Fund for Minority Students
But will this actually help stimulate reform in higher education, where the outrageously-high tuition discourages the poor and minorities from attending college? Nope.
Black Lives Matter Co-Founder says Capitalism Oppresses Black People
Uh, so socialism is the answer to America’s racial woes?
Humanities Tries to Defend Itself against Mounting Criticism
Are humanities courses going the way of the dodo? Are they going to become extinct?!
Universities Searching for Hoaxes
Universities have come a long way from the days of yore when they proclaimed that part of their mission was the search of truth. At the Heritage Foundation recently, Brooklyn College history professor KC Johnson…
Dept of Education Releases Guidelines of How to be Sensitive with Illegal Immigrants
With a title like “Supporting Undocumented Youth,” it does sound like sensitivity training-meets-illegal immigration.
Book Review
Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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The Origins of Political Correctness
Emerson College: ‘Homosexual’ is Offensive to Gays so Stop Using It
Self-Identifying Marxist Professors Outnumber Conservatives as College Professors
Ayn Rand Reconsidered
Black Lives Matter Lists “White Supremacy, Patriarchy, Capitalism” Among Reasons for Orlando Attack
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