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The often-esoteric Modern Language Association is commemorating a conflict too rapidly fading from collective memory—World War II— but the eclectic amalgamation of thousands of college and high school English professors is doing so in a manner that obscures key facts about the war, namely, what was at stake.

If you thought that the Modern Language Association was a highly politicized group whose real activities belied its innocuous-sounding name, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Outside of Hollywood, there can be no greater holdout from the Republican message than the Ivory Tower, yet the information trickling out of surveys and studies shows that it did not come up short in the controversial practice of earmarking federal funds that the congressional elephants became associated with.

Could we be losing the war on terror on campus?

North Carolina’s public school problems may not be as local as you think.

A look at views of how American history is taught from within the academy differs radically from the perspective that you get from so-called outsiders and helps to show why the latter make more reliable historians than the former.

Like all of you, we know that personally we have much to be thankful for. Oddly, what we have to be thankful for professionally is the politically correct colleges and universities that supply us with an unending stream of copy.

Abortion clinic practicums, polecat mascots, terrorist training, death threat allegations by conservative student activists and drag queen racing. In other words, just another week on campus.

When it comes to test results, educators are increasingly playing fast and loose with the facts.

Middle East studies courses in the United States bear a startling resemblance to propaganda efforts in nominally democratic regions.

SAT scores are down national by seven points, yet North Carolina trumpets a victory by only dropping two points?

Pedophiles don’t only inhabit churches, they can be found in high supply in academia as well.