Art History Professor Christopher Reed offered his own unique conception of pleasure in the workplace by highlighting the social virtues of homosexual references in the television sitcom Will & Grace and a YouTube video titled “Shoes.”
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Academic Freedom Without Limits
Largely avoiding discussions of students’ academic freedom, the panel argues that, especially among politicized subjects, professors’ academic freedom is threatened by student evaluations, scarce tenure, and even their own professional code of ethics.
A Genocidal Legacy
Human-rights activists would likely be displeased to hear that important massacres and purges may never make the history books as genocide because of political pressures during the 1948 U.N. Genocide Convention.
Deconstructing Universal (Conservative?) Values
In this uncertain time of global conflict, some professors believe it is time to teach students to reevaluate and deconstruct America’s real enemies—conservatives, science, democracy, and capitalism.
Deconstructing Universal (Conservative?) Values
In this uncertain time of global conflict, some professors believe it is time to teach students to reevaluate and deconstruct America’s real enemies—conservatives, science, democracy, and capitalism.
GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS OF AMERICA
At the Independent Women’s Forum at the Marriot on December 5, 2007, panelists from business and academic circles identified the most significant challenges facing America and suggested rational, free-market policies to enhance U.S. competitiveness in the global economy.
Leaning Tower of PISA
A closer analysis of the 2006 PISA results reveals mixed results about the United States’ global competitiveness in science and math.
Putin-A Happy Face
With the recent Russian economic boom, many Russians now see Putin as their Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Condomnation
The condom has quickly come to symbolize health professionals’ push for “safe sex,” but Notre Dame Professor James P. Sterba suggests that the condom assume an important new role in the legal system: determining whether or not women have been raped.
Joe McCarthy Demythologized
In a recent critique of Blacklisted By History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies that appeared in National Review, historian Ron Radosh makes numerous assertions about the book by M. Stanton Evans that are completely unsupported by the work itself.