When journalists retire to academia, they often find a new audience there. Those new followers, though, can be just as easily misled as the old readers and viewers.
Faculty Lounge
Worthy of Note
Washington Examiner columnist Noemie Emery, who writes some of the most thoughtful think pieces around, offered an interesting commentary on what cerebral folks like to call the Zeitgeist—loosely translated as spirit of the times.
Sanity Alert
Although its denizens and proprietors like to think of it as a bastion of reason, outsiders trying to wrest information out of the Ivory Tower, such as your servants at Accuracy in Academia, have rarely found it to be. It turns out that some who have worked within it feel roughly the same way.
English Prof Exposes Self
In an interview in The Chronicle Review, a CUNY English prof gives more detail on his background than most readers care to know, but about as much as his students have come to expect.
Making the Right Enemies
Further evidence that charter schools work better than traditional public schools: They are making the right enemies.
Degrees as Parole Fodder
While insider and outsiders debate the value of a college degree in today’s market, one criminal attorney has found a surprising utility for a college education: It can help you get parole.
History Leaping Forward
At least one academic is acknowledging the genocide of China’s communist dictator Mao Tse Tung but not the scale of the chairman’s atrocities.
Academics Endangered By Freedom
The very people who cry out for academic freedom—the professoriat—are most likely to suppress it.
Million-Dollar Man
If the CEO of any business became a millionaire overnight by a vote of the board, you would have heard about it by now. When a college president achieves this feat, though, it gets covered by—the college newspaper.
Will labor rulings beget Catholic Reunification?
Those Catholic colleges and universities that sought their independence from the Mother Church back in the 1960s may want to seek its protective custody now.