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.
Articles By: Bethany Stotts
Reading Between the Studies
David Kipen, representing the National Endowment for the Arts, travelled to this year’s Modern Language Association Convention to promote The Big Read, a NEA program which combats declining reading habits by enlisting members of the community to read a piece of literature simultaneously
Shakespeare’s Feminist Critics
The tragedy of too many college courses on William Shakespeare these days is that students may be learning more about literary criticism than the Bard himself.
McCarthy Unplugged
The academic antipathy toward Joe McCarthy was in full swing at this year’s Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention.
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.
Animalistic Shakespeares Explored
Not only did the Bard speak to human nature and love, but he also spoke to philosophy, epistemology, and sociology, according to four Modern Language Association (MLA) scholars speaking at a panel arranged by the Division on Shakespeare.
No Permits Needed for Faith
In response to an Alliance Defense Fund-backed lawsuit, Yuba Community College District in California has decided to drop disciplinary actions against a Christian student who had proselytized on campus without a permit.
Stimulated Economists
Just as Professors and Economists banded together to express their dismay at the economic demerits of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funding, so too many academics and economists are concerns that the pending stimulus bill, H.R. 1, focuses on Keynesian spending that will expand the national debt without actually stimulating the economy.
The Wondering Wanderer
Members of the Ivory Tower, some of whom remain ardent Marxists themselves, maintain that McCarthyite “hysteria” suppressed free expression in the 1950s and led to the unjustified blacklisting of those with socialist sentiments.
Red Badge of Courage
Just as students sporting t-shirts of Che Guevara are often ignorant of his bloody revolutionary record, so too it seems that champions of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade suffer from a peculiar form of “historical amnesia” promoted by academics and activists alike.
Book Review
Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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