Growing old is hard enough without a cadre of pedagogues telling you what it means. “Critical aging does not toss the baby out with its ideological bathwater,” LaSalle professor Emily Mattingly said at this year’s…
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Good News for English Majors, Sort Of
When thousands of English professors gathered in Austin, Texas earlier this month for the annual Modern Language Association (MLA) convention, they were rather pessimistic about the future of their profession, with one small but notable…
PHOTO GALLERY: Leftist Professors Protest Texas Campus Carry
Scroll down for all the photos taken of the Modern Language Association (MLA) protest of Texas’s campus carry law in downtown Austin, Texas, where legal firearms can be carried onto the grounds of public universities.
MLA Creates a New Word and World, Apparently
Somewhat true to its name, the Modern Language Association (MLA) has transformed the word “imaginary” from an adjective into a noun. “In the dominant United States imaginary, some children are more sacred than others,” Sarah…
WATCH: Leftist Professors Protest Texas Campus Carry Law
At the Modern Language Association’s annual convention, this year held in Austin, Texas, leftist language professors marched to the State Capitol in downtown Austin to voice their opposition with the state’s newest campus carry laws…
Rehashing Salaita’s Firing, Again
The Modern Language Association (MLA) is obsessive over Steven Salaita’s firing at the University of Illinois, demonstrated by a panel session entitled, “Salaita, Academic Freedom, and the Question of Palestine: Where Do We Go from…
We Went to the March for Life: This is What We Saw
On Friday, our staff writer Spencer Irvine and AIM Chairman Don Irvine went to meet with March for Life attendees near the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. before the march began. VIDEO: Students chanting, “We are the Pro-Life…
Too Few Feminists in Video Games, says Professor
#GamerGate and feminism in gaming were the subjects of a paper at a recent Modern Language Association (MLA) panel at their annual convention, held this year in Austin, Texas. Anastasia Salter, an assistant professor of…
MLA Stylebook: Capitalism Punishes the Disabled Poor
Capitalism discriminates against the poor and disabled, one professor said during a panel entitled, “Disability and the Global South” at the Modern Language Association’s annual convention. This year, it was held in Austin, Texas, hardly…
‘The Hunger Games’ is Sexist, says Professor
A panel of professors at the Modern Language Association’s annual convention, this time held in Austin, Texas, argued about feminism and sexism in today’s young adult (YA) novels in “The Hunger Games” and other similar…