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The Face of School Choice
When the media deigns to cover a landmark Supreme Court case involving education, reporters should cultivate sources outside of the educational establishment, lest they run the long-term risk of being caught flatfooted by the ruling…
PHOTOS: Book Gallery at the Left-Wing MLA
We took a look around the exhibit hall at the convention center, where left-wing professors talked to book publishers and looked for the latest books to buy. This is what we saw:
From Stalinist Russia, With Love
In Stalinist Russia, they had a love-hate relationship with the United States: Stalin hated it but the writers he dispatched to the U. S. on investigatory trips got to rather like it. Ilya Ilf and…
Disabling Dickens
Truly, some authors are just too important to be left to academia. Charles Dickens is one of them. Yet and still, the Modern Language Association (MLA), at its annual conventions, regularly tries to modernize the…
INFOGRAPHIC: The Numbers Behind Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes
Often, the narrative is that Muslims are more persecuted than other religious groups. However, the statistics tell a different story:
MLA Deconstructs Middle East
When the Modern Language Association (MLA) deconstructs something, it stays scrambled. Thousands of English professors attend the annual MLA conferences and just about every English Department is represented there. At this year’s meeting in Austin,…
Patchwork Girl @ the MLA
Growing old is hard enough without a cadre of pedagogues telling you what it means. “Critical aging does not toss the baby out with its ideological bathwater,” LaSalle professor Emily Mattingly said at this year’s…
Good News for English Majors, Sort Of
When thousands of English professors gathered in Austin, Texas earlier this month for the annual Modern Language Association (MLA) convention, they were rather pessimistic about the future of their profession, with one small but notable…
PHOTO GALLERY: Leftist Professors Protest Texas Campus Carry
Scroll down for all the photos taken of the Modern Language Association (MLA) protest of Texas’s campus carry law in downtown Austin, Texas, where legal firearms can be carried onto the grounds of public universities.
Recent Articles
University of Michigan Bias Response Sued
When university policies are tested off campus, they usually don’t fare too well. Let’s see how far this one goes.
AAUP Misses Turning Point
Last Fall, a professor at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln harassed a Turning Points USA member posted at a literature table on campus, a situation that occurs all too regularly on American campuses.
NJ High School Cheerleaders Chosen By Grievance
Evidently, cheerleading tryouts are too old-fashioned but why even practice?
Catholic School Kicks Butt In Cleveland
It is really startling to see how frequently a schools success moves in inverse proportion to it’s government control.
British Prof Abroad Remembered Marxist Birthday
Two scholars remembered the birthday of Karl Marx: one had the basic facts about Marx, the other the basic facts about Marxism.
Are Cinco de Mayo Hangovers Cultural Appropriation?
You might ask the sages who issued culturally appropriate warnings beforehand.
No Special Ed for Massachusetts Private Schools
The Pioneer Institute claims that private school students are not getting the special education services that national civil rights laws entitle them to.
UCol Pulls Back From ‘Unmasking Whiteness’
The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs no longer embraces the “Unmasking Whiteness” conference it supported because they found attendance was limited to self-identifying white people.
Texas College Takes Action Against Conservative Student
And scored points fighting the first two entries in the Bill of Rights.
DeVos Schools Union Boss
Fake news really is an epidemic, but Betsy DeVos is trying not to get bitten.