Americans’ awareness of their freedoms and where they came from are at a low point and the institutions that once passed on that knowledge are largely to blame.
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Cold War on Campus
The latest survey on academic bias has sent academics into their usual state of denial despite evidence of same that frequently stares them right in the face.
Pacifism’s Utopian Heart
Pacifism, argues Loconte, ignores Islamic fascism’s threat to civilization and human rights in favor of a “theology of love.”
Iran Needs Gender Studies
Feminist scholars have a new locale in which to “strike out in the heart of the patriarchy.”
Stanford Crackdown on Hoover
There’s only one thing that a politically correct university hates more than hosting a conservative think tank on its campus and that is when the guest scholar accumulates more prestige than the host institution.
Berkeley’s Best and Worst
The problem is that half of the cream-of-the-crop courses are in Political Science while half of the worst are in history, economics and, yes, business administration.
Affirmative Action for Foreign Policy
Foreign policy is overrun by a “religion avoidance disorder” so severe that foundations must offer grants to encourage departments to integrate faith issue into their classes.
Don’t Scout Don’t Tell
Could the Boy Scouts of the New Millenium be going the way of the Girls Scouts in the last century?
Iraq War Spending Deconstructed
One possible unintended consequence of staying in Iraq for 100 years that John McCain probably never contemplated is the prospect of professors staging anti-war protests for the next century.
New Deal Expansions Explored
Patrick Garry’s recently published An Entrenched Legacy blames the increasing level of judicial activism on the precedents established under Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal.