December 10, 2010
How do the Cal Tech students ever learn about students who are different from themselves? How do they ever manage to overcome their biases and learn to celebrate diversity?"
December 10, 2010
Here's an essay about a composition course at UNC that was a waste of time. No student, who wanted to improve his writing, would buy a course like this in a stand-alone, free market transa......
December 10, 2010
A federal court dismissed a lawsuit attempting to overturn California's law banning racial preferences.
December 10, 2010
Student journalists have a look at violent video games, the year in politics and the dismal state of American science and math education.
December 10, 2010
Peter Wood revisits the anthropological Mead-Freeman controversy over Samoa and considers Paul Shankman
December 9, 2010
Domestic political considerations far surpassed concerns about scientific grounding in negotiations at the Copenhagen climate conference. Charlie Martin describes how the leaks "confirm the dark sus......
December 9, 2010
NAS speaks out about the ideological character of the sustainability movement.
December 9, 2010
How the federal government threatens the future of the sole voice representing traditional liberal education among accrediting agencies.
December 8, 2010
I am aware that I am getting older, and therefore have less patience. But is it really that important where I or you were when John Lennon died? Thirty years after his untimely death this still seem......
December 8, 2010
Chicago Business reports Kaplan Higher Education’s announcement that it is cutting a total of about 770 jobs. This may be nothing, but it may also not be -- is this the first indication that t......
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....
June 5, 2024
Ohio Northern University gnaws its teeth with an appetite for vindictive lawfare....
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?...
