Near the end of Mel Gibson’s film “Apocalypto,” we see Christian missionaries arriving in the New World to save the natives from a culture of death that celebrates beheadings and human sacrifices to pagan Gods….
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Academia’s Cynical Outreach Program
Academia loves to dress up its appeal to international students in uplifting prose, but a veteran professor suggests the move may be more than just a bit calculated towards self-preservation. “The historiography of education is…
Planned Parenthood Only Talks to Womyn’s Studies Professors and Students
Posted October 9, 2015, by Mary Grabar: (Part 1 of the series is here; part 2 here.) Alas, my requests for more information from Planned Parenthood regarding how such activities as the one I observed…
Is America a Nation of Immigrants?
Generations of students have been taught that we are a nation of immigrants but inquiring minds beg to differ. Well, actually, they don’t beg. “What we have never been is a nation of immigrants,” veteran…
Patriotism, Sí, Nationalism, No
A well-informed scholar recently made an important distinction between patriotism and nationalism. “Nationalism is an ideology that implies that there should be no political differences between inhabitants of a nation,” Dr. Steven Grosby of Clemson…
‘Demon’ of Gender Theory
Editor’s note: A shorter version of this article first appeared in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. This post can also be read at Vision and Values’ website. Pope Francis has returned to Rome after a historic trip…
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Civics, but for Grown-Ups
Some professors are more rooted in reality than others. Unfortunately, they tend to be retired. “President Lincoln called on every mother to whisper words of liberty to every listening babe,” William B. Allen, a professor…
Planned Parenthood’s Campus Empire
The original post appeared on the website Dissident Prof. Posted October 2, 2015, by Mary Grabar: As reported last week, Planned Parenthood’s lobbying efforts against the vote to deny them federal funds was assisted by…
History Lesson on the Death Penalty
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia notes that support for the death penalty has been part of Christian and Catholic tradition in the Old and New Testaments. What’s more, it was morally accepted when the U.S….
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Libertarian vs. Conservative?
What separates libertarianism from conservatism? Surprisingly little. Get the details in the latest issue of Accuracy in Academia’s monthly Campus Report newsletter.
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None Dare Call It Sovereignty
Lectures at the Cato Institute do not necessarily deliver conservative college professors, although they may be the most conservative college professors the organizers at Cato, or anywhere else can find.
Academic Freedom Week At Columbia
A group of graduate students is organizing it.
Democrats For Education Reform
But are they Democrats before they are education reformers?
Sociology Conference Goes All-In on Analyzing Trump Presidency in America
The Southern Sociological Society is having their annual conference this year, but the topic is analyzing the Trump presidency from an anti-Trump perspective.
College Democrats Refuse to Endorse Disarm-Police Demands at Stony Brook
Instead of joining leftist student demands to disarm campus police at Stony Brook University, the College Democrats asked administrators to have mandatory school shooting trainings.
Kennesaw State University Repression
For those who think campus controversies are confined to the coasts, take a look at what some people call “flyover country” and the rest of us call the country.
Parkland Survivor Blames Something Other Than Guns
Namely, local law enforcement, or the lack thereof.
Wake Forest Bias Revealed
Much as professors insist that there is no bias in higher education, every survey shows otherwise, like the latest sample from The Wake Forest Review.
Temple University Professor has Students Write Down ‘Preferred’ Gender at Start of Classes
A Temple University professor, Heath Fogg Davis, is transgender and has his students write down their “preferred” gender at the start of the semester.
Progressive Trifecta on April 12th
Ah the tribulations of being a progressive activist.