Here’s the problem with getting rid of standards you find outdated, such as the Ten Commandments or traditional morality: In the chaos that inevitably results from their absence you wind up trying to concoct something…
Topic: Accuracy in Academia
College Employees at Wisconsin Donated 6,000% More to Obama than Romney
University of Wisconsin employees donated $115,000 to Obama’s campaign in 2012 and only $1,750 to Mitt Romney’s.
Anti-Zionism has Become Anti-Semitism on College Campuses
It’s all about being anti-Jew these days. Read the column here.
How Obama became the Deceitful Gay Marriage President
Great take, as always, from Paul Kengor.
PC-Mania: Tennessee Drops “Lady Vols” Nickname
The University of Tennessee athletics department decided to drop the “Lady Vols” nickname for all its women’s sports teams except their basketball team. Fans are upset by the move.
In the Real World, the Left is Close-Minded and the Right is the Opposite
Check out this piece by David French at National Review Online.
Scholar Speaks on Obama’s Red Mentor
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…
Teaching Moment on Baltimore Missed
Here’s what so-called “teachable moments” in academia generally miss—the decade those moments are in. “There is a revolution taking place in the United States,” Stanford researchers Travis Bristol and Claude Goldenberg write of their Edutopia…
David Brooks: America’s Next Culture War of Marriage
Good take from David Brooks in the New York Times.
Diversity Dictators on Campus
Apparently university administrators no longer read George Orwell because they don’t seem to recognize how Orwellian their policies are. “Speech codes are almost never identified as such by the many colleges and universities that impose…