Articles by Abraham Taylor

Book Reviews

Ideology: A Mental Straight Jacket

Many widely respected ideologues willfully ignore reality in support of their agendas, the former executive director of Accuracy in Academia told the audience at a recent luncheon sponsored by Accuracy in Media.

Features

The African Dilemma: Stay or Go?

Students can learn about a part of Africa that their African studies departments are not likely to share with them in the documentary The Devil’s Footpath.

Features

Fahrenhyped Michael Moore

A new film, FahrenHYPE 9/11, challenges the assertions of Michael Moore by rebutting key points of the recent highly publicized Fahrenheit 9/11.

College Prep

Graduating In Real Time?

Look to your right, look to your left. One out of three high school students may not graduate, an education analyst at a Washington, D. C. think-tank found.

Perspectives

Ideological Twinkie

Symbolically stiffing the nearly 8,000 students in Utah’s McKay Events Center, Michael Moore began his speech 52 minutes late.

Features

Can Academia Confront Iraq?

The film challenges extreme but growing ideas such as that of Gordon Feldman, professor at Brandeis University who described terrorism as merely “ways of inflicting revenge on an enemy that seems unable or unwilling to respond to rational pleas for discussion and justice.”

News

The Case Of The Petrified Professor

In warning a sympathetic Washington, D. C. audience of the “fearmongering” of the Bush Administration, a Brooklyn College professor conjured up some demons of his own.

College Prep

NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND?

Despite the harsh criticism this election season has spawned of President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind (NCLB), progress is being made, according to its proponents.

News

Bring Him On?

Michael Moore is coming to Utah, whether it wants him or not.

Features

College Rankings (Over)Rated

If you are trying to decide which university to attend, you might want to think twice about heavily basing your decision on the U.S. News and World Report’s infamous college rankings.