For about a century, intellectuals, especially those who teach, have been looking for philosopher kings. When the objects of their affections turn out to be thugs, they rarely admit it.
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Melania Trump’s Books Rejected by Cat in the Hat
A controversy made waves when a librarian named Liz Phipps Soeiro rejected Dr. Seuss-written books donated to the library where she works from First Lady Melania Trump.
Free Speech Crisis @ the other UN
When professors join in the fun, as happened recently at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, it may well tip the balance, for better or for worse.
Banning Speakers Is Absolutely Wrong
Berkeley is creating a financial version of the heckler’s veto, and it must be rejected.
Academic Innocents Abroad
When old established universities opened branch campuses abroad in the first decade of this century, the education press was full of glowing coverage generated by university press releases but the news from abroad has slowed to a trickle, and it’s not because nothing is happening there.
Mizzou sees Another Drop in Student Enrollment
After student protests rocked the campus of the University of Missouri in 2015, student enrollment has dropped significantly.
Is the Bill of Rights Hateful?
A recent Brookings Institution survey, for example, found that 44 percent of students believed so-called “hate speech” is not protected by the first amendment while another 16 percent answered “don’t know.”
DeVos Makes Title IX Legal Again
In a “Dear Colleague” letter to university administrators, the U. S. Department of Education reversed the Obama Administration’s guidance urging school officials to go above and beyond, some would say outside, the law while investigating charges of sexual harassment under Title IX laws.
Columbia Journalism School Ratchets Up Bias
Whenever a journalism school claims it has found a new and improved way to train reports, it seems, the result is an even more partisan and ideological training camp than what is already in place.
Minneapolis: Black Parents Flee to Charter Schools
The Minneapolis public school system is experiencing a massive student exodus and guess where they’re going.
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Jihad a Trigger Word At UW-Madison
A student at the University of Wisconsin at Madison tried to make a terrorism class more challenging: He demanded that the word “jihad” be eliminated from it.
Harvard Immigration Lawyers Have Real World Experience
Not only did many of them filed amicus briefs on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program but one of them has really practical experience.
Courts Say No Politics In The Classroom
So math teachers need not worry about how to attack Judge Brett Kavanaugh in the middle of a class.
Does Harvard Hate Small Towns Too?
The internal documents dripping out of Harvard in its case against Students for Fair Admissions does not paint a pretty institutional image of the Ivy League colossus.
Amber Athey Dissed At AU
One of our favorite writes took the time to spend an evening with college students at American University and they proved that chivalry, gallantry and even good manners are indeed missing in action on that campus.
How Accurate Is Online Education?
Big names might garner hits and visits but not necessarily provide accuracy.
What Harvard Can Learn From California History
The California state university system faced complaints remarkably similar to the ones Harvard is facing now, and leveled by the same ethnic group.
ACT Math & English Scores Down
If you can add up the columns on this page and read the text, odds are you’re probably not a recent high school grad.
Government Grant Given to Professor to Study How Technology can Advance Social Justice
The federal government will fund a study on how to use technology to advance social justice, where an ‘intersectional feminism’ professor will lead the charge.
Stony Brook University Drops Homecoming King and Queen, Replaces it with ‘all-Gender Homecoming Court’
At Stony Brook University, there is no longer a ‘homecoming king’ or ‘homecoming queen,’ but a homecoming court that includes all alleged genders.
Book Review
Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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The Origins of Political Correctness
Emerson College: ‘Homosexual’ is Offensive to Gays so Stop Using It
Self-Identifying Marxist Professors Outnumber Conservatives as College Professors
Ayn Rand Reconsidered
Black Lives Matter Lists “White Supremacy, Patriarchy, Capitalism” Among Reasons for Orlando Attack
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