In Boston, an English professor is trying to sell his class on society’s collective guilt when said students are already believers in personal responsibility.
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
Pentagon Funds Campus Left
For about a half a century, the U. S. Defense Department has been feeding the hand that bites it.
Bridges To Nowhere
Before reading between the lines, you should learn to read the actual sentences that make up those bridges. Unfortunately, too often they are bridges to nowhere.
CINO Conflict of Interest
What can courts do that most Catholic colleges can’t? Take their employees off the job when they have a conflict of interest.
Recession Finally Hits Faculty
The good news: George Washington University is laying off professors.
The bad news: in the hard sciences.
The New Chicago School
The college where Nobel Prize-winning free market economist Milton Friedman hung his hat for many a decade—the University of Chicago—has had a well-deserved reputation for going against the academic grain that at least dates back to the tenure of its former president Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977) during the Great Depression. By a happy coincidence, the conservative icon and the hero of liberals overlapped.
Veteran Journalist Recommends Voodoo Anyone?
Veteran journalist Wes Vernon gave Accuracy in Academia’s first textbook an unreserved rave in a review in The Washington Times.
Band of Brooks Brothers
When you make a rapid ascent from college classroom to metro newsroom, you may miss a lot. Plucked from the University of Chicago by none other than William F. Buckley himself to toil at National Review, David Brooks then made a dazzling climb up the editorial ladder to where he is perched today at the New York Times.
Voodoo Anyone? lauded in U.S. Senate
Last month U. S. Senator Michael Enzi, R-Wyoming, recommended Accuracy in Academia’s new textbook to his colleagues in remarks on the Senate floor.
Let Them Eat Rice Cake
Readers and viewers desert old-time newspapers and broadcast outlets with nearly as much determination and enthusiasm as the peoples of captive nations showed when fleeing their countries as the Soviet Union collapsed. Nevertheless, the response of journalism schools is to groom even more activist journalist-provacateurs.