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On the centenary of his birth, he remains the playwright who made anti-communism a hate crime. By Paul Kengor – 10.16.15 October 17, 2015 is the centenary of the birth of Arthur Miller, one of the literary left’s shining lights and righteous crusaders against some of liberals’ worst demons: Joe McCarthy, “HUAC,” and, more generally, […]

Some students don’t know how to enjoy top status: A cohort of angry students at the small, private liberal arts college in Claremont, Calif., demanded administrators remove from their website a news release touting the recognition, decrying the promotion as pushing “stress, anxiety and unhealthy competition among students.” In late July, Forbes ranked Pomona College as the […]

In a way, Rachel Dolezal is a living embodiment of racial progress. In the 1961 book, Black Like Me, white journalist John Howard Griffin pretended to be black in order to show the indignities blacks endure. This year, we learned that Rachel Dolezal pretended to be black in order to obtain affirmative action benefits. Writer […]

The black scholar who previously revealed Obama’s personal relationship with Communist Party operative Frank Marshall Davis is now speaking in detail on the record. Professor Gerald Horne says that while the relationship is noteworthy and should have been uncovered by the press, there is no evidence that Davis turned Obama “into some sort of Manchurian […]

From TV Newser. Not too many conservatives on the list. FBN’s Maria Bartiromo:  New York University – Graduate School of Arts and Science (NY), May 19 CBS’s Margaret Brennan:  Niagara University – College of Arts and Sciences and Education (NY), May 16 PBS’s David Brooks:  Westmont College (CA), May 8… Dartmouth College (NH), June 14 NBC’s Tom Brokaw:  High Point University (NC), May 8 Yahoo’s Katie Couric:  University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI), May […]

When it becomes successful in their own backyards, even die-hard liberals support school choice. “I support [means-tested, not universal] vouchers, I support homeschooling, I support charter schools, I support changes in the traditional system, [and] I support virtual schools,” Dr. Howard Fuller, author of No Struggle, No Progress and former Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent, said […]

At Accuracy in Academia, we have long complained of academic historians who ignore primary sources in favor of secondary ones. What gets lost in that process from the former approach to the latter one is, well, history. Never have I found myself tripping over a professor at the Library of Congress in 30 years as […]

MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber’s comments regarding the “stupidity of the American voter” necessitating legislators to craft the Obamacare law in such a way that voters wouldn’t understand its impact, have sparked outrage, mostly from conservatives. But while Americans are focusing on comments that Gruber has now retracted, they should also pay attention to the real […]

Wesley McDonald 1946 – 2014 Wesley McDonald, a professor of Political Science at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, an author, and a leading authority on the scholar, Russell Kirk, died on September 9 at John Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, after a brief illness. He was 68. For 34 years, he had been a Professor of […]

Bureaucratic ineptitude is nothing new to the American public (as well as the readership of AIA). It becomes almost invariably more difficult for an agency or institution to function smoothly once it reaches a certain size; unable to effectively conduct oversight of itself, expansive bureaucracy faces the constant nagging threat that some low or mid-level […]

If you’ve seen the occasional stories on “sex weeks” at Yale and Harvard, you might be surprised to know that many colleges and universities officially devote more than seven days to the subject.

Technology is changing the face of journalism in addition to the value (or perception of value) of a journalism degree.