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It’s not an oxymoron.

As M. Stanton Evans shows in Blacklisted By History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies, Taiwan and South Korea might owe their freedom to the brawling Irishman from Appleton, Wisconsin.

The federal bureaucratic expansion has made some conservatives nervous that the welfare state will irreversibly centralize government into small department kingdoms, headed by unelected bureaucratic kingpins.

We actually found an American History teacher capable of critical thinking.

When giving a history quiz to a number of college students, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni failed four out of five students.

By every conceivable measure, the environment is getting better, not worse, with time but most college professors are reluctant to acknowledge the improvement, particularly on their own campuses.

At its best, the record on the 40-year-old federal Head Start program was mixed. Now, the middle-aged government program is becoming downright dangerous, according to Karen Effrem, a director of EdWatch.org.

The latest pronouncement from academia correctly identifies the failings of public education but misdiagnoses the cause and, hence, offers a prescription that promises more of the same malady.

In continuing the tradition of Accuracy in Academia’s summer symposia, we sought to give college students information and perspectives on events current and historical that they are not likely to get from mandatory campus anti-war rallies and college lecture halls.