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Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid shows why some academics are jumping on the Obama bandwagon.

Another lesson from our British cousins on what could happen here.

“STUDENT ARRESTED FOR CUTTING FOOD WITH KNIFE”
was the headline of a recent story on Orlando Florida’s News Channel 6.

In a recent column at mindingthecampus.com, author and commentator John Leo noted that although former Harvard president Larry Summers was given the boot by leftist profs for telling “unwelcome truths,” Duke University president Richard Brodhead would apparently not suffer the same fate after the Duke “non-rape” case.

In the wake of the departure of the president of the College of William and Mary over his scheduling of a sex workers’ art show, it is useful to know that the Flathats are not alone in their choice of extracurricular activities.

When “asked by a national climate change campaign to spend a day teaching about global warming, Brown University philosophy professor, Felicia Ackerman, explains why she decided not to do so,” noted Joanne Jacobs in rightyblogs.com.

Never underestimate the power of some good, old-fashioned grassroots outrage!

Williamsburg, VA – Gene R. Nichol, president of the College of William and Mary, submitted a resignation letter yesterday after receiving notice that his contract would not be renewed by the college’s Board of Visitors.

Two years ago, the national report, The Silent Epidemic (pdf), heralded America’s growing – but largely unrecognized – high school dropout crisis.

Last week the Catholic League criticized a bill introduced by Colorado Rep. Gwyn Green that would make it easier to sue private institutions in cases involving child sexual abuse. Our criticism centered on one objection: public institutions were given a pass.

If all academic writing became infused with the “excitement” of Butler’s work, many outside the field would probably fail to recognize the change.

Shakespeare’s commentary on science and society was so profound that the famous author Aldous Huxley copied themes wholesale from the Tempest in order to construct the American dystopian classic A Brave World.