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Post pundit and Georgetown prof sounds presidential.

Universities like to think of their lecture series as extensions of the education that students get in their classrooms. Unfortunately, they usually are.

Academics salivate at the chance to put their pet theories into practice but when they actually are able to, they’re usually the last ones to recognize the unintended consequences of their schemes.

Academic economists rarely fret over who will pay for public employee pensions, perhaps because many of them get them and most of us pay, quite a bit, into them.

When we first encountered Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz’s assertion that the Iraq War led to the sub-prime mortgage crisis, we found the assertion a bit of a reach. It turns out that there may have been more to it than met the eye.

“No one is better that the Liberals at avoiding epochal events that they have played little part in.” R. Emmettt Tyrrell, Jr., in the September 2011 issue of The American Spectator.

The granting of waivers seems to favor states that have voted for the current administration in the last election, at least for the past decade.

Chicago-based Roosevelt University, a school  that prides itself on “social justice” seems to have dispensed precious little of it to an adjunct professor it dismissed last year.

The curriculum of No Child Left Behind  and Race to the Top are eerily similar, and have the same result: government vagueness that leaves much to the imagination of applicants for federal funds.

The tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2011 attacks upon the United States has inspired academics attempting to diminish its importance to get uncharacteristically quantitative.

Thousands of commercial programs are being run by state and private non-profit universities, engaging in unfair competition with for-profit companies, including small businesses.

Find out what academics will not tell you about the Reagan Years in the latest issue of Accuracy in Academia’s monthly Campus Report newsletter.