Recent Articles

A Touch of the Poet

, Malcolm A. Kline

Even First Amendment absolutists should question whether any university would countenance Giovannian ad-libs offered by speakers who hold diametrically opposite political views.

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Do Not Laugh At My Course

, Lindalyn Kakadelis

It should surprise no one that the latest educational fad making waves across the country is just another repackaged, touchy-feely program designed to bolster self-esteem.

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Ball State Babylon

, Malcolm A. Kline

A college or university’s geographic location in America’s heartland may not lead to a moderate balance among its faculty or in its course offerings.

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Religion at the AFA

, Amy Davis

There is some religious bias at The United States Air Force Academy witnesses told a congressional committee. But would their policies endanger freedom to worship?

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California School Gives Good News to Clubs

, Mathew D. Staver

Following a lawsuit on behalf of the Good News Club, which is sponsored by Child Evangelism Fellowship, the Chico Unified School District repealed its policy under which the District charged higher facilities usage fees to religious groups than to secular groups. The higher fees eventually forced the Good News Clubs to stop meeting.

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Evangelicals and USAFA Get Bum Rap

, William A. Donahue

Before a House Armed Services subcommittee former U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) chaplain MeLinda Morton, a Lutheran minister, accused the school of having a ‘pervasive and systemic climate of religious intolerance.’

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Recent Articles

Where Area Studies Err

, Spencer Irvine

There’s a very good chance that everything you’ve learned in your Middle East studies class is wrong. Haroon Ullah, currently on the policy planning staff of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s Policy Planning Staff…

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Searching for History’s Vindication

, Christopher Manion

The recent unpleasantness in eastern Ukraine recalls a nagging truth: Wars always bring unintended consequences, and Americans have seen plenty of them, firsthand. In 1916, Woodrow Wilson won reelection on the slogan, “He Kept Us…

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Anti-Semitism on Campus 2014

, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin

As soon as an African American student at San Jose State University who was racially harassed and bullied by his dormitory roommates came forward, university, county, and state officials began an investigation. Within days, prosecutors…

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Religious Progressives’ Future

, Spencer Irvine

At the Brookings Institute, a center-left think tank, Washington Post contributor E.J. Dionne, theological professor Gary Dorrien, and Columbia University professor Dorian Warren discussed the future of religious progressives in American society and how it…

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Administrators Not Created Equal

, Spencer Irvine

In The Chronicle of Higher Education, writer Don Troop highlighted the current controversy at the University of Michigan concerning how much the university pays its administrators. At Ann Arbor in 2005, they paid less than…

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Common Core Disses Poetry

, Malcolm A. Kline

The list of what is missing from the Obama Administration’s Common Core education reforms continues to grow. “Given the paucity of standards mentioning poetry at all, never mind the elements of poetry, it is not…

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Too Big to Fail?

, Spencer Irvine

At the Heritage Foundation, professors Charles Calomiris and Mark Flannery provided insights on the ramifications of the U.S. government’s bank bailouts after the 2007 financial crisis. Calomiris is the Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions…

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College Radiates Intolerance

, Tony Perkins

Radiation therapy can be dangerous to patients — and sometimes, to students. Brandon Jenkins found that out the hard way when he applied to a radiation therapy program at the Community College of Baltimore County….

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