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In one of the few crowded roundtable discussions at the recent MLA conference in Vancouver, which was far from a…

“Atlantic Empiricisms” was the name of a panel discussion at the 2015 Modern Language Association convention in Vancouver, Canada, and…

During the question and answer portion of one of the many panels at the 2015 Modern Language Association convention in…

Mark Twain falsely portrayed Hawaiians as behind the times, one professor concluded at the 2015 Modern Language Association convention in…

Every now and then, academics drop their guard and reveal that one or another of the shibboleths that the modern…

It’s one thing for conservative pundits to question the Obama Administration’s latest higher education subsidy. It’s quite another for a…

With a little less than two years to go until the 2016 presidential contest, GOP contenders are staking out positions…

It’s interesting that the people who are usually in a fruitless search for Republican fat cats have failed to notice…

Harvard not only educated the president but has steadfastly supported him and even his more controversial policies, until now. “For…

When it comes to evidence of global warming, who are you going to believe, your professors or the facts? “While…

As 2014 drew to a close, at least three probable contenders for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 have taken…

My old alma mater—the University of Scranton—recently made the news with a year-old study on New Year’s resolutions. Richard Asa…