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2014, MLA Style
Campus Report

2014, MLA Style

Find out what English professors are teaching in the latest issue of Accuracy in Academia’s monthly Campus Report newsletter.

The Chattering Classes of 2013
Campus Report

The Chattering Classes of 2013

All the professors we wrote about last year are back. See what they said and did in 2013 in the latest issue of Accuracy in Academia’s Campus Report newsletter.

Ridiculous Item

Do Catholics Need Government?

“The Church that built hospitals, cathedrals, schools, soup kitchens, orphanages, and universities with no government funding in the nineteenth-century can’t seem to survive without it in the twenty-first.”
— Christopher Manion, Ph.D.,  Director of the Campaign for Humanae Vitae, a project of the Bellarmine Forum.

Current Wisdom

Those who can’t do…

“It was almost stereotypical of Vietnam decision makers to assume that what they could not do simply could not be done.”
—Hollins University political science professor Edward A. Lynch in his book, The Cold War’s Last Battlefield: Reagan, the Soviets, and Central America.

Campus Report

Make Football, Not War

Find out what, and who, is behind the war on football in the latest issue of Accuracy in Academia’s monthly Campus Report newsletter.

Current Wisdom

Alive & Tribal

“Tribalism in the Middle East is not only alive and kicking, it is alive and killing.”
—Dr. Mordechai Kedar, professor of Arabic at Bar Ilan University, in a forum on Capitol Hill sponsored by the Endowment for Middle East Truth.

Ridiculous Item

Doh!

“It’s alarming to me that most [Das]Capital-quoters I have encountered are white men.”
—Andrew Seal, Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at Yale. (The Chronicle Review, B16, November 22, 2013.

Current Wisdom

MOOCs: The Awful Truth

“Buried in all the hype about MOOCs is a somewhat surprising admission by some of the world’s leading universities—that their teaching methods may not be very good.”—Jeffrey Young, The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 15, 2013.

Current Wisdom

Why Ask Why

“Why does environmentalism tend to be so pious and self-serious?”—From Princeton catalogue description of course entitled “The Environment Can Be Funny”