Recent Articles

Underfunded or underwhelming?

, Lindalyn Kakadelis

For education reformers, this year will bring a mix of the old and the new, as lawmakers bridge the gap between the lingering stalemates of 2006 and the policy innovations of 2007.

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Brokeback University

, Malcolm A. Kline

Philadelphia is not just a place where Broadway shows go on out of town tryouts. When the Modern Language Association meets there, Ph.D. candidates test their theses there too.

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MLA Guide to World War II

, Malcolm A. Kline

The often-esoteric Modern Language Association is commemorating a conflict too rapidly fading from collective memory—World War II— but the eclectic amalgamation of thousands of college and high school English professors is doing so in a manner that obscures key facts about the war, namely, what was at stake.

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Global Warming on Ice

, Malcolm A. Kline

Environmentally conscious undergrads beware: some of the same people warning of the dangers of global warming now were predicting an ice age back in the 1970s.

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Feeding Biting Hands

, Malcolm A. Kline

Outside of Hollywood, there can be no greater holdout from the Republican message than the Ivory Tower, yet the information trickling out of surveys and studies shows that it did not come up short in the controversial practice of earmarking federal funds that the congressional elephants became associated with.

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Recent Articles

Educators School Congress on Rights

, Tony Perkins

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes… the end of religious liberty? That’s what plenty of faith-based groups are worried about, now that the Supreme Court is weeks away from potentially writing the epilogue…

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University and Commencement Speakers

, Malcolm A. Kline

The Young America’s Foundation has once again compiled an invaluable compendium of this season’s commencement speakers and found, once again, that they overwhelmingly represent one point of view. Moreover, in our review of 127 of…

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Gay Marriage Conservatives?

, Paul Kengor

Speaking on Fox News Channel’s The Five, pundit Greg Gutfeld said that “gay marriage, in my opinion, is a conservative idea.” He noted that the left “generally hates traditions” and is all about “breaking with…

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