U.S. Congresswoman Sue Myrick will deliver the keynote address at a reception on February 9 marking the beginning of a campaign in behalf of a Declaration Against Genocide.
Features
Frankenstein Video Game
A professor at the U. Of Southern California has devised a procedure for integrating “educational role-playing games into the classroom.”
PC WC
If you think the level of academic conferences can’t sink any lower, read on.
Ron Radosh & NR
We have tried to point out some of the many errors in Ron Radosh’s critique of Blacklisted By History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies by M. Stanton Evans that appeared in National Review last month. Now, esteemed Elizabethtown College political scientist W. Wesley McDonald weighs in at Takimag.com.
Carbon Footprint of the MLA
At least one academic, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities associate professor Mark Fedelty, has concluded that travel to academic conferences contributes to global warming.
Another Token Dropped
Contributing to the political imbalance on university payrolls, the University of California just lowered its quota of Republicans.
Why We Write
In his commentary on the demise of the higher education beat on many newspapers, the head of the National Education Writers Association reveals that these writers and their editors may have become too close to their sources.
Outbreak of Political Correctness
Researchers at the University of California San Francisco and spokesmen for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are scrambling to explain away the findings of a recent medical journal article on a drug-resistant strain of bacteria known as MRSA.
Marching for Life
The tremendous turnout of young people at the annual demonstration is something to experience.
Sabbaticals for Dummies
Those of us who have long been curious about what professors do on sabbatical could glean one sort of an answer from Oregon University English professor Edwin Battistella’s tongue-in-cheek (we think) listing of “Twenty-Five things to do on sabbatical” that appeared in the Fall 2007 issue of The Montana Professor.
Book Review
Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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