On July 17, Professor Michael Munger of Duke University hosted a forum at the Cato Institute about his new book, Choosing in Groups: Analytical Politics Revisited. By distinguishing an individual and his/her role in a…
Topic: Accuracy in Academia
Holocaust Denier Professor’s Facebook Post on Pamela Geller is Over-the-Top
His Facebook post, which was posted online this past May, said, “Don’t be scared of these dirty Jewish Zionist White Supremacist thugs” in response to Pamela Geller’s satirical cartoon event. Kaukab Siddique is a professor at…
INFOGRAPHIC: The Dangers of Sanctuary Cities
After the Kate Steinle murder at the hands of an illegal immigrant, Hans von Spakovsky dug into the numbers and found the following, which we’ve put into an infographic:
Corrosion of Sanctuary Cities
“Sanctuary cities” that refuse to turn over deportable felons to the feds are frequently located in college towns. Yet and still, it’s hard to find academics who will speak ill of them, no matter how…
British College Loses $1.5 Million Donation over Ousting of Nobel Prize Winner Tim Hunt
The controversy was that Hunt, a Nobel laureate, made a sexist joke and it offended the audience he was speaking to. Social media outraged pushed the University College London to pressure Hunt to resign, even…
That Makes Three: A Third Planned Parenthood-Related Video Emerges Detailing Abortions and Organ Harvesting
Editor’s Note: Before you click on the link to Planned Parenthood that your university helpfully provides you, you may want to check out these videos. The Center for Medical Progress has released at least three videos…
Law Firm Points Out How Unfair College Sexual Assault Cases Are
It’s bad when lawyers have to point out how unfair college cases are related to sexual assault accusations.
High School Girls Save First Amendment
A pair of high school girls has done something Republican members of Congress only talk about: They saved the First Amendment by actually using it. “In July 2014—the summer before her senior year—Samantha Jones’s father…
Black College Ends Bill Cosby Endowed Professor Job
In light of recent revelations about Bill Cosby’s drugging of women, it was the right choice to end the professorship.
No Special Treatment for Political Activists
There is a controversy at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where the Poverty Center is going to be closed, but whose director has made a fuss about its closing and claimed it was politically…