When Reed Irvine started Accuracy in Academia 20 years ago to document the leftward tilt in higher education, critics charged that we were way off base. Recent studies show that we are on to something.
Recent Articles
Tariq Ramadan is not a victim
I suspect that Ramadan chose to come to the US because his numerous gaffes have shown his real face in Europe.
Democracy Codes
Stefan Braun’s analysis of speech codes in Democracy Off Balance: Freedom of Expression and Hate Propaganda in Canada, is not relevant only to the situation in the author’s country.
David Deming Fights Back
After months of persecution by the administration of the University of Oklahoma, geophysicist David Deming answered back with more than a letter-to-the-editor or inter-office memo. He has sued OU officials in federal court.
AIA Campus Report on College Bias
On our last Campus Report radio broadcast, guests fresh from the college scene offered examples of how acute the political bias is on American college campuses today.
Iowa Indoctrination
In order to major in journalism, students must take two prerequisites, one of which is Cultural and Historical Foundations Communication. Those who expect a course in the history of journalism will be disappointed.
Kwanzaa U
We are reminded in December by television commercials and billboards that this time of year, people not only celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah but also the African feast of Kwanzaa. But how African, or for that matter, how African-American is Kwanzaa?
Christmas Makes a Comeback
Although the American Civil Liberties Union and its hand-maidens have been doing their level best to keep the Christmas spirit extinguished, the Catholic League reports that the spirit of the season is alive and well.
Nittany Nonsense
Penn State alumni urging the school’s president, Graham Spanier, to fire iconic college football coach Joe Paterno over the Nittany Lions recent losses may want to look at a bigger loser in University Park—the academic program.
AIA Executive Director in USA TODAY
Accuracy in Academia’s executive director, Malcolm A. Kline, has an article in USA TODAY about the less-than-African roots of Kwanzaa.
Recent Articles
Brave New World 2013
Aldous Huxley call your office.
Academically Happy Marriages
“Although the outcome was a happy one, there is much to dislike about the process by which it was achieved.”—Stanford Law professor Deborah L. Rhode on the U. S. Supreme Court’s gay marriage decision.
Massive Open Online Catholicism
A professor at a Catholic college claims to make “A Catholic Case Against MOOCs [Massive Open Online Courses]” in the Chronicle of Higher Education but his arguments never veer far from the secular.
Girls Gone Wild Again I
Call it the Battle of the Single Sex
Girls Gone Wild Again II
Are single-sex schools a relic of the past or the wave of the future?
Untold Story: Children’s Books
Young adult literature has become more “lurid, grotesque, profane, sexual, and ugly” in recent years, says Meghan Cox Gurdon.
Hillsdale’s Other Milestones
Many know that Hillsdale College accepts no federal funds but fewer know of some of the school’s other milestones.
Building on the Bad
I cannot, however, teach them grammar and proofreading in the course of a semester when their high-school educations have been shoddy—Aaron Barlow, New York City College of Technology, English, Faculty Member
Virginia’s Drone Ban Man
The architect behind Charlottesville, Virginia’s ban on drone use, John Whitehead, recently spoke at the Heritage Foundation.
College Ratings Without Penalties
Punishment will not be an option for the administration for those who try to game the new college ratings system.