On Saturday night, a lunatic by the name of Jason Brian Dalton went on a weekend killing spree in Michigan. The next day, contradicting the official Catholic Catechism, Pope Francis called for the worldwide abolition…
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Protesting Melissa Click
Melissa Click, an assistant mass media communications professor at the University of Missouri, is currently suspended for assaulting a student journalist during a protest and calling for “muscle” to push the journalist out of the…
ScaliaGate at Georgetown University
Georgetown University law professors argued whether the university should pay homage and remember U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative justice on the high court. The Washington Post reported on the controversy and obtained…
University of Maryland: Democratic Party “Safe Space”
In their account of the 1988 presidential campaign, Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars: The Trivial Pursuit of the Presidency, Jack Germond and Jules Whitcover claimed that Republicans have more places to “warehouse” their political…
Ranking 20th Century U.S. Presidents
Since everybody else is rating presidents, we thought we’d give it a shot too, since we’ve covered many of them, especially those who served in the last century. The root of the word president, eminent…
Apprenticeships Making a Comeback?
Somewhere between random free college for everyone and Teutonic regimentation geared towards industry is a happy medium of career choices that American high school graduates used to come much closer to having access to. “The…
Silent Conservatives at Colleges
Apparently liberals on college campuses are not only “triggered” by what they hear from conservatives but even by their silence. “The University of Minnesota’s undergraduate student government approved an annual moment of silence to recognize…
Charter Schools are Taking Off
At least one form of very productive education disruption is growing exponentially. “Parents can choose public schools for their children in 55 percent of the nation’s largest school districts, more than double the percent…
New Oberlin Alumni Group Condemns Anti-Semitism
Editor’s Note: The original post was published by the Louis. B Brandeis Center. On January 3, 2016, the newly formed group, “Oberlin Alumni Against Anti-Semitism” denounced a recent trend of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel acts on…
Fyodor We Hardly Knew Ya
The Modern Language Association (MLA) gave new meaning to the term “in-depth study” at the annual MLA convention in Austin, Texas in January. “What Crime and Punishment is really about is aberrant male sexuality and…