When elites pass judgement on the efforts of police to keep the peace on campus it is the students on the quad who are put at risk.
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MLA Job Security Angst
When the Modern Language Association, America’s largest association of English professors, demonstrates a sudden concern for the rising debt level of college students as they did in a recent issue of Inside Higher Education, these sentiments bear closer scrutiny.
Anti-Military Hate Speech
The right to free speech is protected in the First Amendment to our Constitution, but there are times when what is said, taxes the limits of one’s patience.
Libertarian Scholar Corrects Self
When a noted libertarian scholar concocted an economics quiz which conservatives passed and liberals failed, right-wingers who read it high-fived each other, figuratively speaking.
Abortion Disinformation at CUA
It’s always awkward when a Catholic college or university invites a pro-choice speaker to lecture on campus, at least to Catholics outside of its gates.
Token Republicans In Academia
One of many ways to gauge the political tilt of academia is to see how many cabinet members from past presidential administrations have obtained academic berths.
Nothing Succeeds Like Failure
In academia, it seems, nothing succeeds like failure.
Academia’s Growing Credibility Gap
The gap between what academia promises and what it actually delivers is becoming ever more apparent by the day.
Dueling Education Reforms
A blogger at the American Enterprise Institute has suggested a set of principles to guide education reform. The problem is, well-intentioned and logical as they are, they look a lot like No Child Left Behind.
As the world turns…
Co-author of failed foreign policy continues to offer input from academic berth.