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Just one of the many misconceptions about conservatives, particularly in the academy, is that we all come off of an assembly line. To preserve this fiction, academics prefer to study us from a distance, if at all.

The beauty part about studying history by using primary sources is that you find that the real story is much more interesting than the comic book Robber Barons versions (think Howard Zinn) that garden variety professors like to pass on.

Both Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns attract their share of scholars. This year’s race is no exception.

Senior Washington correspondent Michael Barone, who is in a position to know, notes that an interesting thing happened in the history of the two-party system: Republicans and Democrats switched places.

Columnist Ann Coulter likes to remark that for liberals, history began when they woke up in the morning, but it’s also helpful for conservatives to remember that the past has a long shelf-life.

Apparently it’s a how-to course.

Academics have always had a hard time accepting the service academies even when they work for them.

When academics turn their attention to America’s free enterprise system, they prove definitively that they never worked in it.

But not in the way you think.

Will Common Core produce well-educated Americans or indoctrinated pacifist global citizens?

Sesame Workshop, which reported revenue of $130,606,413, in 2009, says 35 percent comes from “corporate, foundation and government support.”

Defending PBS, CEO Paula Kerger told CNN’s Carol Costello, “We’re America’s biggest classroom.”