Charles Darwin is partly to blame for eugenics, according to Discovery Institute senior fellow John West.
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Earmarking Education Reform
One reason why politicians spend more time talking about education reform than actually engaged in it might be that they benefit greatly from the status quo.
Academics Need Inferiority Complex
Some social scientists seem to have a hard time distinguishing between the social sciences and hard science.
Bias of Border Studies
When academics cross the line into advocacy they risk violating their own oft-stated goal of illuminating current controversies, such as immigration.
Norman Rockwell Deconstructed
Academics are trying out a new way to make peace with American icons, namely by turning them into liberals long after their death. Such seems to be Johns Hopkins University (JHU) professor Richard Halpern’s approach to the art of Norman Rockwell.
Ethics in Government, Not
America’s first openly gay governor becomes the latest Democratic officeholder not to let the revolving door into academia hit him on the way out of elected office.
Revisionist Reaganomics
Academics trying to rewrite the Reagan years may need magicians’ mirrors because the actual data don’t support the spin that these “public scholars” would dearly like to put on the 80s.
Ho Jo Health Care 101
Health care administrators and those who teach them try to fathom the low esteem they are held in without much success.
Campaign Against America’s Future
The Ivory Triangle of media, academic and political elites who push America left is gearing up for another full court press to the port side.
Tech Lawsuits
The Virginia Tech massacre was by no means the first murderous rampage at a university in the state.