From the people who like to paint critics of higher education as anti-intellectual comes a new tome that shows how cerebral the pursuits of the academic publishing world are.
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Trade Versus Security
Measures to ensure national security and consumer safety by regulating imports often come at the cost of reduced trade.
The NAACP at 100
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
celebrated its l00th birthday on February 12.
2008 MLA Unplugged
Accuracy in Academia would like to offer its own, uncensored, top-ten list of this year’s MLA presentations.
Radical Teaching Defined
In the effort to radicalize students willing to work for social change, “critical” teachers may be forgetting to let their students freely choose their own ideological positions in the first place.
Of Monsters, Moms, and Metal Men
What do psychology, Jurassic Park, Star Trek, and Rouben Mamoulian’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde have in common? They represent lessons in developmental miscarriages, deadly toilet training, and inflamed bestial passions, according to three professors.
Another Meaning for “Difference”
At a recent Modern Language Association (MLA) panel on “Disability and Human Rights,” assistant Professor Rebecca Wanzo argued for a new gynecological justice and equated unequal access to “family planning” resources with the controversial practice of female genital mutilation.
Dreams From My President
A professor emerita at Stanford University, Marjorie Gabrielle Perloff dedicated the majority of her 20-minute speech to commenting on Barack Obama’s highly electable character and his autobiography.
Up the Academy
In-house audits that Academia inflicts upon itself invariably give the Ivory Tower a clean bill of health but a recent study at least attempts to scratch beneath the surface.
Two Faces of China
Thus far, the Chinese government has been accused of sloppy record keeping and giving a false account of the violent attacks that have recently taken place during the Olympic Games.