Universities that cry poor while entertaining themselves lavishly are finding it harder to keep up their public service facade, even with progressive pundits.
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
The Commencement Address You Will Not Hear
Obama Administration officials ran themselves ragged delivering commencement addresses but you needn’t expect Trump Administration officials to run out of energy after graduation day.
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Is CBS Biased Towards Campus Conservatives?
Now this is interesting: Our old friend John Wilson from the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) claims that CBS tilts to the right in its coverage of free speech controversies in higher education involving conservatives.
Fired FBI Director to Teach Ethics at Alma Mater
Now here’s a new twist on the old “those who can’t do, teach” cliche.
Harvard Prof: Hillary Could Still Win
Yes, one of the best and brightest spun a scenario by which the former first lady could get her husband’s old job. Spoiler alert: it’s really tortured.
Capitalism From A to Zenkus
A Columbia professor blames capitalism for two world wars and slavery.
Should schools ban BFFs?
Believe it or not, this is a debate now raging among experts.
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What’s in a name?
For one thing, it tells what a group is.
$PLC: There’s Big Money In Hate
The Southern Poverty Law Center, beloved source of media and academia alike, turns out to be not so poor after all.
Academics Offer Defecated Rationality, Sage Said
Two things are interesting when one rereads the great Russell Kirk, author of the seminal The Conservative Mind, which proved that conservatives had one: (1.) how comments he made nearly half a century ago remain current; and (2.) the startling degree to which the observations of middle-aged Russell Kirk resemble those of young Martin Luther King.