Ridiculous Item

Further proof that academics have way too much time on their hands: a study from Harvard connecting Fourth of July celebrations to Republican voting patterns.

Unbearable Whiteness of Being

Scholar studies “the spiritual component of Lil’ Wayne’s blog from prison. “

The Soviet Union still exists, in the minds of New York public school teachers.

Professor tries to clear the marketplace of ideas with a short declarative sentence.

Catholic Boston College’s School of Theology and Ministry welcomes visitors to its campus with a statue of Gandhi. Has the Church run out of saints?

“Equally important, the memoir documents Obama’s reading of such canonical African-American writers as Frank Marshall Davis…” –Boston University English professor Gene Andrew Jarrett on the presidential memoir that identifies the scribe as “Frank the poet”

Academia is embracing Al-Jazeera even while the so-called mainstream media is abandoning it.

Professor gets Carnegie award for doing one of George Carlin’s old routines.

Columbia professor’s imagination of the Constitution owes more to John Lennon than George Washington.

Good for whose environment?

You’ll never guess what’s behind the latest academic effort to save the environment.