Occasionally you can actually learn about classic authors at the Modern Language Association (MLA). Attended by thousands of English professors from around the world, too often the MLA emphasizes the “Modern” part of their acronym…
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American Colleges Ignore Violence Against Jewish Students in Israel and the U.S.
Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared in The Observer and appears courtesy of the author and the Louis D. Brandeis Center. When New Jersey lawyer Stephen Flatow sent an email to some history professors earlier…
We Covered Ted Cruz Back in 2010: Cruz on Obama’s Harvard Background
Editor’s Note: The original article can be read here, but it is re-posted below: The last Republican president and his Democratic successor both graduated from schools within Harvard University and that should probably be a…
Aging at the MLA
One way in which the world’s largest conclave of English professors—the Modern Language Association (MLA)—lives up to its name is to leave attendees at its annual conferences with a new vocabulary that they cannot shake….
The Face of School Choice
When the media deigns to cover a landmark Supreme Court case involving education, reporters should cultivate sources outside of the educational establishment, lest they run the long-term risk of being caught flatfooted by the ruling…
PHOTOS: Book Gallery at the Left-Wing MLA
We took a look around the exhibit hall at the convention center, where left-wing professors talked to book publishers and looked for the latest books to buy. This is what we saw:
From Stalinist Russia, With Love
In Stalinist Russia, they had a love-hate relationship with the United States: Stalin hated it but the writers he dispatched to the U. S. on investigatory trips got to rather like it. Ilya Ilf and…
Disabling Dickens
Truly, some authors are just too important to be left to academia. Charles Dickens is one of them. Yet and still, the Modern Language Association (MLA), at its annual conventions, regularly tries to modernize the…
INFOGRAPHIC: The Numbers Behind Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes
Often, the narrative is that Muslims are more persecuted than other religious groups. However, the statistics tell a different story:
MLA Deconstructs Middle East
When the Modern Language Association (MLA) deconstructs something, it stays scrambled. Thousands of English professors attend the annual MLA conferences and just about every English Department is represented there. At this year’s meeting in Austin,…