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Aligning themselves with dubious foreign movements is nothing new for America’s elite journalists.

Once upon a time, the FBI actively recruited agents from Catholic colleges like Georgetown. Now, they would be lucky to find a reliable witness there.

In the Orwell-on-steroids world that is academia, you can frequently figure out what is not covered in a discipline by looking at the title of it.

At Accuracy in Academia and our big sister group Accuracy in Media we endeavor to give both of those institutions constructive criticism. Ergo, it amuses us to see them turn on each other.

Progressives always want conservatives to “move beyond ideology” but never budge from their own.

A Harvard scholar has unearthed archival evidence of the relationship of Hollywood producers to the Nazi government in the 1930s but most scholars stop short of implicating Left-wing icons in chronicling the run-up to World War II.

Higher education may never be more irrelevant than when it tries hard to be relevant. In the Chronicle of Higher Education, Dan Berrett surveys a trio of seminars that await incoming freshmen at the University of Richmond (UR).

Purdue president Mitch Daniels’ efforts to keep Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States out of Indiana public schools while serving as governor of the state has drawn a predictable academic outcry.

The tendency of academic elites to embrace America’s enemies is not a new one. Indeed, the academic imprimatur on any person, place or thing should give one pause.

Cheating on tests has reached such epidemic proportions that even the National School Boards Association (NSBA) is taking notice of it.

Elites, particularly academic ones, think that foreign policy is too important to be left to the American public, but the reverse may be true.

You may not want to take medical advice from academics who weigh in on public controversies.