Accuracy in Academia’s next author’s night speaker, the former head of the U. S. Civil Rights Commission, sees a danger in America’s emphasis on diversity. “To be sure, we are wonderfully diverse—in race, gender, sexual…
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The Other Side of Multiculturalism
It turns out that American students have something in common with their Latin American counterparts: They don’t learn anything good about America either. “In Latin America children are often exposed to the negative aspects of…
Academia’s Cynical Outreach Program
Academia loves to dress up its appeal to international students in uplifting prose, but a veteran professor suggests the move may be more than just a bit calculated towards self-preservation. “The historiography of education is…
Is America a Nation of Immigrants?
Generations of students have been taught that we are a nation of immigrants but inquiring minds beg to differ. Well, actually, they don’t beg. “What we have never been is a nation of immigrants,” veteran…
Patriotism, Sí, Nationalism, No
A well-informed scholar recently made an important distinction between patriotism and nationalism. “Nationalism is an ideology that implies that there should be no political differences between inhabitants of a nation,” Dr. Steven Grosby of Clemson…
Adieu to Two Scholars
Here at Accuracy in Academia, we mostly get to cover only ersatz intellectuals. Actual scholars, we too frequently find, are far fewer in number. Their ranks just got thinner this month with the passing of…
Colleges Eliminating Self-Esteem Courses
Something that should give would-be education reformers pause but probably won’t: when ephemeral education fads finally come in for much-needed criticism, they have already done their damage. Case in point: the self-esteem courses popular 15-20…
Culture War Not So 90s
In his first campaign for the presidency, then-Senator Barack Obama, D-Ill, declared that the phrase “culture war” was “so 90s.” Nevertheless, there are strong indications, seven years later, that the conflict is still with us,…
Adam Smith Rocks!
There’s a reason you don’t see many Adam Smith ties in the faculty lounge. “Adam Smith believed there are few things that the government should do,” James Otteson of Wake Forest said at the Philadelphia…