“Tribalism in the Middle East is not only alive and kicking, it is alive and killing.”
—Dr. Mordechai Kedar, professor of Arabic at Bar Ilan University, in a forum on Capitol Hill sponsored by the Endowment for Middle East Truth.
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Filling Academic Memory Holes
Here’s why we keep going: to rescue history from the memory hole academia has created.
Doh!
“It’s alarming to me that most [Das]Capital-quoters I have encountered are white men.”
—Andrew Seal, Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at Yale. (The Chronicle Review, B16, November 22, 2013.
Is Cornell in America?
Public schools used to assign “What my country means to me” as an essay topic. One wonders what one would get from such an exercise if it were given to Cornell undergrads who got a chance to take the full panoply of courses available there under the heading, American Studies.
MIT Meteorologist Debunks Global Warming
Richard Lindzen, a former meteorologist at MIT, in his first presentation as the newest distinguished fellow at the libertarian think tank Cato Institute, tore into global warming alarmists.
War On Football Deconstructed
Football is everywhere in the news today. PBS recently released a documentary entitled “League of Denial” which took the NFL to task for its supposed attempts at covering up medical issues that NFL players were being afflicted with after their time in the league.
Fantasy Economics of Obamacare
It’s one thing to play fantasy football or fantasy baseball. It’s quite another to play fantasy economics. Unfortunately, too many academics do too little of the former and too much of the latter.
College & Financial Distress
“Thirty-year-old men graduating from the University of California system have a 38-percent chance of financial distress, and women have a 55-percent chance.”—Chronicle of Higher Education, November 15, 2013.
MOOCs: The Awful Truth
“Buried in all the hype about MOOCs is a somewhat surprising admission by some of the world’s leading universities—that their teaching methods may not be very good.”—Jeffrey Young, The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 15, 2013.
Pedantic @ Penn
Scan through any college catalogue and you will find courses that are painfully obvious, at best, and trivial, at least.
Recent Articles
BDS Proponents: Vindictive Losers
Despite a virtually unbroken series of losses—and in academia, no less—proponents of Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions aimed at Israel continue to dominate academic departments and do their level best to suppress Israeli advocacy.
Occidental Cancels Football Season
That’s right, President Obama’s alma mater (one of them, anyway) cancelled its football season because nobody came, not to watch–but to play.
Study: Small Liberal Arts Colleges Spend Significant Money to Support Administrator Salaries
Administrative and bureaucratic bloat at small liberal arts college is a trend that is unsustainable, pointed out a recent study by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA). The study found that of every…
Christian University Hosts Mostly Conservative Speakers
Liberty University has invited a higher ratio of conservative speakers than other universities, a recent analysis claimed.
Remembering the U. S. Constitution
In the latest issue of Accuracy in Academia’s monthly Campus Report newsletter, we remember America’s living document and the immortal M. Stanton Evans, who chronicled its creation.
Learning Curve Steep @ GWU
When students at George Washington University were presented with President Trump’s tax cuts and told they were concocted by Bernie Sanders, they liked them.
Does Twitter Endanger Tenure?
At the risk of sounding like an old promo for Batman, can it be that technology will do what about a half a century of books, editorials and speeches couldn’t?
Collectivism 101
Perhaps there is a reason why professors who outline the benefits of collectivism stick to the theoretical and hypothetical.
U.S. News Ranks DREAM Colleges
Is U. S. News now going to give colleges and universities a love bump in its rankings if they accommodate DREAMers? It sure looks that way.
Southern Indiana Held Event to Warn Students about Offensive Halloween Costumes
Ten students attended the workshop at the University of Southern Indiana, which warned them about offensive Halloween costumes.
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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