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When academics leave their Ivory Cocoon to share their thoughts with the rest of us, these forays show them to be so out of sync with reality that we can see why they usually keep their ruminations in the classroom where they can become make-or-break test questions or term papers.

Is the “rational American voter” just a passing myth? Dr. Bryan Caplan, an economist at George Mason University, thinks that voter “irrationality” is widespread throughout democratic America, and contributes to the cleft in opinion between the general public and educated economists on the subject of free trade.

Should you notice a disconnect between the southerners that you meet and the American South that you hear about, your personal impressions are probably more accurate than the analysis you may get from media and academic types.

If you think that political science no longer refers exclusively to a course on government, you might be onto something.

When Johns Hopkins University opened a branch in Mainland China did communist officials there acquire another propoganda arm?

Johns Hopkins University not only has a history with China but at least one notable communist sympathizer in its hall of famed scholars—Owen Lattimore, who whitewashed many of Mao Tse Tung’s earliest massacres in his official reports.

Young conservatives watching the poll ratings of the only president they have ever voted for implode got some words of comfort, sort of, from a veteran conservative journalist last month at the Heritage Foundation.

If Americans still don’t buy gay marriage, it won’t be because the left isn’t trying.

Although “compassionate conservative” George W. Bush presides over an economy that boasts a lower unemployment rate than that of his predecessor, who was a self-described “progressive,” progressives argue that their philosophy has been proven to be sound.

American immigrants of various races who want to fight for immigrant rights must collectively identify themselves under a “person of color” status, according to the publisher of ColorLines magazine, a publication covering race and politics in America.

What, if anything, can schools do to increase the likelihood that weak and disengaged students will find the path to academic success?

Russell Kirk’s political theories proved essential to the modern conservative movement in America.