July 25, 2011
Over at The Beacon, I have a post on the latest requirement that Something Else must be taught in K-12 history textbooks. This time it is gay history but the real problem is the politicization of te......
July 25, 2011
David Clemens, English professor at Monterey Peninsula College, shares his top works of fiction and non-fiction.
July 25, 2011
Is internet searching conducive to real education?
July 25, 2011
What's driving up the cost of textbooks, and what are the cheaper alternatives?
July 21, 2011
A Widener University faculty and administrative commmittee unanimously cleared law professor Lawrence Connell of racism, sexism, and charges that he was a danger to students.
July 15, 2011
Student summer reporters analyze global citizenship, complain about censorship of prayers, suggest the wisdom of a carbon tax and marvel at the appeal of Harry Potter.
July 15, 2011
Professor Blits, who helped end the University of Delaware's ideological residence life program, will speak to students and others at the conference of the Campus Freedom Network.
July 15, 2011
An English professor's sense of the inadequacy of This I Believe as the choice for freshman summer reading echoes NAS's calls for more rigor in common book programs.
July 14, 2011
The latest "Irascible Professor" piece is a guest column by Ralph Westfall, who teaches at Cal Poly Pomona. He decries the increasingly bloated administrative apparatus -- more and more admini......
July 13, 2011
In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, Professor Thomas Bertonneau writes about plagiarism. In particular, why do students engage in it and why do they think they can get away with it?
May 7, 2024
The mobs desecrating the American flag, smashing windows, chanting genocidal slogans—this always was the end game of the advocates of the right to protest, action civics, student activ......
March 9, 2024
Claireve Grandjouan, when I knew her, was Head of the Classics Department at Hunter College, and that year gave a three-hour Friday evening class in Egyptian archaeology....
April 20, 2024
By all means, pursue your noble dream of improving the condition of humanity through your research and teaching. Could I do it all again, I would, but I would do things very differently....
May 15, 2015
A look at the double standard that has arisen regarding racism, illustrated recently by the reaction to a black professor's biased comments on Twitter....
October 12, 2010
What does it mean to be Latino? Are only Latin American people Latino, or does the term apply to anyone whose language derived from Latin?...
September 21, 2010
A reader asks, "If Elohim refers to multiple 'gods,' then Yhwh Elohim really means Lord of Gods...the one of many, right?" A Hebrew expert answers....
