July 2, 2009
Complying with federal regulations, Virginia Tech calls on students to identify their race and ethnicity.
July 2, 2009
The Aspen Ideas Festival confuses social and political activism with scholarship.
July 1, 2009
This article by Stephen Zelnick recounting Temple University's departure from the Great Conversation appeared in the "Case Studies in Academic Malady" issue of Academic Questions (vol. 22, no. 3......
June 30, 2009
Blogging professors urge fellow academics to update their commitment to identity politics and sustainability.
June 30, 2009
Amaze your education colleagues with randomly assembled education phrases such as "Let's mesh mission-critical higher-order thinking!"
June 30, 2009
A new organization, the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, upholds reasoned inquiry and the pursuit of the truth.
June 29, 2009
What principles about racial discrimination can we take from the case of the firefighters in New Haven?
June 29, 2009
This interview appeared in the "Case Studies in Academic Maladies" issue of Academic Questions (vol. 22, no. 3)
June 26, 2009
Michael Jackson blurs, Governor Sanford trips, Farrah Fawcett strolls, and fermions chill out. NAS rides the news cycle.
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?...
