Faculty Lounge

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.

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.

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.

The union of college professors in the Golden State  that one member dubbed “The California Feckless Association” is working overtime to show how out of touch it is with nation, state and world.

Here’s a research project the Ivy League has just tackled that people outside the Ivies have been onto for generations.

“Santa is clearly a mutant.”

Yes, that’s what a UNC-Chapel Hill employee actually says in a Christmas video produced by the school.

Blogger “Norman Novus,” who claims to be a Case Western Reserve University Ph.D. candidate, wrote on December 18 that “a group of Cleveland’s less cerebrally engaged have take to protesting outside my research suite at Case.” But at least one of his photos is ripped off Getty Images.

Believe it or not, someone from academia has actually done a detailed, critical analysis of the accuracy of claims of proponents of the health care reform bill currently before Congress. Of course, that critic is a student, not a professor.

Amid the heavy-handed bureaucracies that dominate our nation’s colleges and universities, there are seeds of opportunity.

Is the so-called discrimination against girls and women in school just another scam that should be lumped into the same category as “global warming” and “health care reform?” According to Phyllis Schlafly, the answer is a definite “yes.”

When storied public school teacher Marva Collins noticed three decades ago that inner city school children could memorize song lyrics but not Shakespeare, she challenged them to digest the latter. A new educational fad takes a different approach.

On December 17, 2009, author M. Stanton Evans will guest on Accuracy in Media’s blog talk radio show. Evans will discuss Accuracy in Academia’s first textbook, Voodoo Anyone? How to Understand Economics Without Really Trying.