In the effort to radicalize students willing to work for social change, “critical” teachers may be forgetting to let their students freely choose their own ideological positions in the first place.
Read the articleResponding to a request given by President Obama for involvement, the House Republicans came up with the House Republican Economic Recovery Plan. It is their alternative to the stimulus package.
Read the articleThe Russian invasion of Georgia was a wakeup call to policy makers across the United States, Europe and Central Asia.
Read the articleDavid Kipen, representing the National Endowment for the Arts, travelled to this year’s Modern Language Association Convention to promote The Big Read, a NEA program which combats declining reading habits by enlisting members of the community to read a piece of literature simultaneously
Read the articleThe most recent gas war between Russia and Ukraine took place January 1st after political tension caused gas price negotiations between the two countries to fall apart and Russia cut gas flows to Ukraine.
Read the articleAccuracy in Academia has devoted considerable attention to policies and practices at Boston College that make the institution run by the Jesuit order of priests sometimes look “Catholic in name only.”
Read the articleA noted left-wing writer actually found a Democrat he disapproves of. Naturally, the target of his angst has been dead for four years.
Read the articleThe tragedy of too many college courses on William Shakespeare these days is that students may be learning more about literary criticism than the Bard himself.
Read the articleThe academic antipathy toward Joe McCarthy was in full swing at this year’s Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention.
Read the articleIn this age of financial insecurity, everyone has their own cure for the disease that ails the economy.
Read the articleWhen Jimmy Carter made an unsuccessful bid for reelection as president, even Democrats couldn’t say for sure why they were voting for him. Nearly three decades later, he is treated as an elder statesman.
Read the articleWhat do psychology, Jurassic Park, Star Trek, and Rouben Mamoulian’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde have in common? They represent lessons in developmental miscarriages, deadly toilet training, and inflamed bestial passions, according to three professors.
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