February 25, 2013
MTC: Fishy Courses: The Fake Red Snappers of Academe
Peter Wood
Say you go down to local fishmonger and order a nice tuna steak. You take it home, cook it up, serve it, and find it is succulent and delicious. But before long you have cramps, nausea, a......
February 15, 2013
MTC: The Core Value of Higher Education Is Money?
Peter Augustine Lawler
For many economists, the big point about the current higher education bubble is that it deserves to burst. College education is overpriced because colleges have been getting away with charging st......
January 17, 2013
Article: Race, Class and Gender, Q&A with Peter Wood
The Daily Texan Editorial Board
The Daily Texan interviews Peter Wood on NAS's recent report, "Recasting History."
January 23, 2013
MTC: Andover and that 'Hookers on TV' Project
MTC Editor
Last week we posted Heather Mac Donald's criticism of an off-beat student project at Phillips Andover Academy on"The Perversion of the American Dream: Deconstructing Media Portrayals of Sex Workers th......
January 11, 2013
MTC: The Academy Helps Drive Class Warfare
William H. Young
From the National Association of Scholars One of the distinguishing features of America from the founding throughout our history has been classlessness. In recent years, especially since 2009, the......
January 14, 2013
MTC: Hey, Kids--How About Studying Oppressed Sex Workers?
Heather Mac Donald
A pop quiz: Where might a student most likely research the following topic: "The Perversion of the American Dream: Deconstructing Media Portrayals of Sex Workers through Analysis and Real Narra......
December 31, 2012
Article: The Mind of Students
Will Fitzhugh
Students' minds are the main engines of academic work; we should try to learn what's going on inside them, argues Will Fitzhugh.
December 20, 2012
Article: Perspectives Unbound
Robert L. Jackson
Confronted with the Howard Zinn-ing of history, Mary Grabar writes, “The abandonment of objectivity is an acknowledgement that one is no longer teaching history.”
December 18, 2012
MTC: Howard Zinn in the College Classroom
Mary Grabar
The left cannot get enough of the late Howard Zinn. The radical professor's A People's History of the United States consistently holds a place in the top 15 of the 100 bestselling political books on A......