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A student discovers an anti-Israel bias in her high school history book.

Spending $34.2 billion in two years? That’s a tall order. But not for North Carolina legislators…

Dozens of prominent education programs across the country demand that their students promote social justice.

While most students hear one view from the Middle Eastern Studies department on their college campuses, another is emerging albeit without the attention that most Middle Eastern Studies departments get.

What happens when graduating seniors get to choose their college commencement speaker and pick former Secretary of State Colin Powell? They might get Sen. Hillary Clinton instead.

Once again, Accuracy in Academia covers a case of academic freedom denied that the AAUP ignores.

Paul Krugman is a columnist who never passes up an opportunity to throw jabs at those Americans whom he dislikes, a set that comprises anyone who doesn’t accept his big-government philosophy.

It’s not just at institutions like the Santa Clara University, UNC-Chapel Hill, and others that have a large number of professors who subscribe to liberal ideology. Research performed by Dan Klein and others indicates there is a large bias against conservative and libertarian professors in academia today.

Not only do liberals fill the classrooms, evidence suggests that they control hiring committees, by preferring liberals over conservatives.

It is hard to find a better recent case of political correctness gone insane than what happened at the University of California at Santa Cruz in early March.

The debate about capital punishment on the nation’s campuses is much like the debate about abortion. Only one viewpoint is presented—the politically correct one. It is indicative of the type of tendentious scholarship that is all too common in academia.

Has academia become so politicized that teaching good economics, and using politically sensitive illustrations, can lead to threats, fines, penalties, demotion and worse? It certainly seemed so in early February when Hans-Hermann Hoppe received an egregious letter from the Provost of his university.