October 8, 2010
Texan professors who thrive on taxpayer funding are irate about a state law that requires them to make course content clear to students before the latter ......
October 8, 2010
Michael Mandel notes in this post that among recent college grads who have employment, the greatest number have government jobs. They probably produce little or no value; what they do may in fact im......
October 8, 2010
Economics professor Steven Horwitz has written an article for the Foundation for Economic Education taking further issue with the scurrilous piece I mentioned here on Monday. Like so many others who......
October 8, 2010
The contemporary sequel to the 1980s original, this is a film of spineless characters without much character.
October 8, 2010
Student journalist size up various issues, from vanishing academic libraries to the legalization of marijuana.
October 5, 2010
According to The Chronicle this afternoon: An overwhelming majority of Americans say it is better for some students to go to community colleges instead of four-year colleges and universities, acco......
October 5, 2010
A victory for the California Association of Scholars, who argued against a bill that would have legalized racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination.
October 5, 2010
Presenting both sides of controversies begins with recognizing that an opponent is not a “bad person."
October 4, 2010
New York Times Public Editor Arthur Brisbane consulted the NAS for his article, "Scholarly Work, Without All the Footnotes," published yesterday: Peter W. Wood, an anthropologist who is president......
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?...
