The media rarely miss a chance to go after conservatives funding their favorite causes but virtually ignore the more extensive, expensive and successful efforts of left-wing money men to bankroll theirs, particularly on college campuses….
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The media rarely miss a chance to go after conservatives funding their favorite causes but virtually ignore the more extensive, expensive and successful efforts of left-wing money men to bankroll theirs, particularly on college campuses….
Establishment Republicans are always mystified when they embrace Democratic Party policies and get hammered for it, particularly, as is frequently the case, when those programs don’t work particularly well. “It was everyday moms who shamed…
A professor found an easier way to study math. Unfortunately, he’s a political scientist. “I propose an alternative to mathematics, what I call numerical literacy, or for lack of a better phrase, adult arithmetic,” Andrew…
For some time now, sages and scholars have been alleging that so-called “trigger warnings” curtail vigorous debate on campus. It turns out that the allegation is more than mere hyperbole. “In college debate, which, unlike…
Outside of academia, even gay marriage supporters are dubious about the Supreme Court’s legal logic in legalizing it. “When I read Justice Kennedy’s decision, I wanted to embroider it on a pillow but wondered if…
Education School researchers at Stanford found that ethnic studies courses boost grades and attendance. Apparently, it never occurred to them to ask what exactly the students learn in them. “New research shows gains in attendance…
A writer from The New Yorker actually noticed a political bias in academe: She claims it tilts right. Actually, Jane Mayer’s article, “How a Handful of Wealthy Reactionaries Tugged Academe to the Right,” which appeared…
How do student protestors today differ from their predecessors back in the 1960s? The latter were more well-read. “This is a post-literacy generation,” Peter Wood of the National Association of Scholars (NAS) said recently at…
Perhaps law professors should confine themselves to explaining the law to their students and showing how it works based upon the best evidence available. “The American legal professoriate has tirelessly pursued an expose’ of American…
Despite evidence to the contrary, academics, among other elites, continue to insist that there is a shortage of applicants to fill jobs in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math-related fields, usually when making the case for…