The Obama administration is considering a ‘no first use’ policy, which is not sitting well with longtime American allies, said Professor Matthew Kroenig, an associate professor of government and foreign service at Georgetown University, at…
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“The Terrorist Threat against U.S. has Never Been Greater” says Johns Hopkins Lecturer
At the Heritage Foundation, Dr. Mary Habeck, an adjunct lecturer at John Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies (known as SAIS), noted that terrorism has spiked since 2011. She said that today, “the terrorist threat…
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The Trump Treatment for a Campus Conservative
I was disinvited from a college debate on the campus of the State University of New York in New Paltz last March. Left-wing professors didn’t want to hear me debate a left-winger on media coverage…
Miranda Rights Should be Reconsidered
Should the U.S. Supreme Court reconsider the famous ‘Miranda’ rights? One law professor at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, Paul Cassell, made a case for remaking what we know today as…
Where ‘Fundamental Transformation’ Will Take You
Editor’s note: This is an excerpt of a speech given at George Mason University on October 3, 2016 as a part of the Ronald Reagan Lecture Series. Barack Obama ran two campaigns on the promise to…
Georgetown: Clinton’s Branch Office
The New York Times is reporting that Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta has been contacted by the FBI about the alleged Russian hackers behind the leaks of his emails. This is what Podesta and many…
Perverting College Coursework to Conform to Ideology
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at the Times of Israel. In April of 2012, the California Association of Scholars, a division of the National Association of Scholars, prepared a report for the University of…
The College Board’s SAT Money Hustle
A recent report alleged that the College Board, the architects of the college entrance exams known today as the SAT, is becoming a profit-driven (yet taxpayer-funded) machine, instead of a business focused on the greater…
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A Guide to Fight for School Choice
The Institute for Justice (IJ) and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) issued a jointly-published guide on how lawmakers and activists can push for more school choice in their home states. In their second edition…
Charter Schools Work in Massachusetts
The Pioneer Institute conducted a case study on Phoenix Academies, a successful charter school network in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Their focus is not on separating at-risk youth and children into grade levels, but tailoring…
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AAUP Declares Victory After Koch Court Win
The Koch Brothers they despise just won a key court case but the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is doing victory laps.
Is There Truth In Academia?
A Jesuit who taught in Georgetown, and is in a position to know, says the quest will be more difficult than in generations past.
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Trump Could Punish Universities By Executive Order
If the head of the Berkeley College Republicans could figure this one out, someone in the White House may already have. “In 1941, Executive Order 8807 authorized the federal government to subcontract research projects to…
Teachable Moment at University of Alaska Southeast
What they need to explain is how the day they marked off for a “Power and Privilege” conference differs from any other day when they don’t cancel classes.
Geometries Of Whiteness 101
And you thought students didn’t learn anything about math anymore. “An art education professor at the University of North Texas is urging his fellow educators to use social justice-themed art classes to fight ‘geometries of…
Guess Who Still Watches CNN
Well, it turns out they still have some viewers who watch it by choice and you can probably figure out who they are.
University of Georgia Employee Wants Transgender Healthcare
Because he is the change she’s been waiting for.
University of Washington Psychologist Creates Geeky Barbie
Something tells me it won’t move as fast as the Sweet Magic Kitchen.
Political Scientists To Hold Hackathon
Not to hack into our computers, so far as we know, but to explore topics we working stiffs may never get to consider.
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DePaul Professor Wants To Defund Universities
Call it an idea whose time is long overdue.