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When you get right down to it, the institutions that cry the loudest for diversity, particularly in academia, aren’t that diverse themselves.

Those of us who track academic bias have long been plagued by a nagging question: when did it start?

Perhaps a former vice-presidential candidate was right when he said that there are two Americas. From what we’ve found, there is the one we live in, and the one that is studied in academia.

Academics say, and do, the darndest things. This year…

This latest incident offered a couple of narratives that the media preferred to ignore.

It is startling to compare the hubris of college administrators with the humility of combat veterans.

Their professors may still love it, but college students are going negative on Obamacare and the president whose name is often attached to it.

None of the teachers who wrote their take on education policy and reform could ever agree on a single issue, such as teacher layoffs, seniority and standardized testing.

Immigration reform is one of the most important issues on President Barack Obama’s legislative agenda.

“Family instability is a leading cause of poverty in our society, and so these private decisions…have costs associated with them.”

The reason that European countries have not completely pulled out of their recessions is that their entitlement reforms “are a failure,” because “politicians rarely take the path of spending cuts.” Instead, “they take…a path that leans heavily toward tax increases.”

Inevitably, the discussion veered from teacher-evaluation criteria at the federal and state levels to upcoming requirements of Common Core.