English professors, it seems, want to teach anything but English.
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Moment of Truth @MLA
When professors drop their guard, you get to realize how decayed education is, higher and lower. “We prefer to pretend that bad students don’t exist,” Gerald Graff of the University of Illinois at Chicago told the panel.
Visual Aids @ MLA
A professor from George Mason University ran a slide show of naked lesbians to accompany her presentation at the Modern Language Association (MLA) annual convention in Chicago this year.
Greening Dickens @ MLA
Apparently Rachel Carson no longer provides enough inspiration to environmentalists. They are now going back to find environmental messages written long before the first Earth Day was commemorated.
Obama Parsed @ MLA
A trio of academics at the Modern Language Association’s (MLA) annual convention took obligatory swipes at conservative critics of the president in a panel on his best-selling memoir, Dreams from My Father. Oddly enough, though, they confirmed the essential facts behind much of the naysayers’ criticisms of that volume.
MLA “Solves” Financial Crisis
Usually when a group gets “mission creep,” it’s because they’ve accomplished their original mission.
Brotherly Love @ MLA
The recent Modern Language Association (MLA) held a session called, “Vulnerable Expression and the Arab Uprisings” to take a closer look at the post-Arab Spring world.
2014, MLA Style
Find out what English professors are teaching in the latest issue of Accuracy in Academia’s monthly Campus Report newsletter.
Marxist Poetry @ the MLA
It is one thing to think Marx was a brilliant economist, despite more than a century’s worth of evidence to the contrary. It is quite another to think he was a talented poet.
Moby Dick @ The MLA
If the Modern Language Association (MLA) had done to Moby Dick what they did to Herman Melville, Captain Ahab might have kept his leg.
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Poll finds 44% of Millennials Prefer to Live Under Socialism
A poll discovered that 44% of Millennials would prefer to live under a socialist government system, but yet, a good amount could not define socialism.
‘White Genocide’ Professor to Speak at ‘Decolonization’ Event at Amherst College
The Drexel professor who once called for a “white genocide” is slated to speak at an event on “decolonization” at Amherst College.
Mayor Criticized Trump in Political Science Class at Michigan State University
A mayor criticized President Trump in a political science presentation at Michigan State University, calling the president “a pathetic excuse,” among other criticisms.
Pro-Traditional Marriage Student Group Survived Vote at Georgetown University
Oh, the irony: A pro-traditional marriage student group, Love Saxa, at Georgetown University survived a vote to retain its student group status after a complain by an LGBT group.
Financial Aid Helps Rich
College presidents and university administrators waste no time lining up at microphones and manning the op-ed pages on the need to help poor students. However, when we’re not looking, they help the rich.
How The NFL Got Kneed
And gave college students about the only reason they can think of for taking a knee.
BDS On Campus: Loser Take All
Normalizing Anti-Semitism in Student Governments
Ethiopian-born Miss Israel: Giving lie to BDS
The Ethiopian-born Miss Israel is a walking, talking argument against Boycotting, Divesting from and Sanctioning Israel.
TDS on Campus
That doesn’t stand for touchdowns but for Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), a malady that afflicts the educational establishment to this day.
Georgetown Gives Catholic Club Reprieve
The bad news is that a Catholic club had to retain attorneys in order to function at a Catholic University. The good news: They won.
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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