“Tuition alone cannot sustain higher education, which means that it’s essential to build support among people who don’t listen to NPR and drive hybrids.”— Chris Beneke, associate professor of history at Bentley University, and Randall Stephens is a reader in history at Northumbria University, in England.
Recent Articles
AIA @ 28 & Counting
A problem faced by both Accuracy in Academia and its big sister organization Accuracy in Media: Our goal—an accurate elite—seems ever more elusive by the year.
House GOP Identity Crisis
On higher education, as on a host of issues, U. S. House Republicans offer unique criticisms, then wind up proposing solutions to crises that resemble those of the Democratic Party.
Oh Canada
“And the country I was born in had no meaningful civil liberty tradition whatsoever: Canada!”— Donald Alexander Downs, Alexander Meiklejohn Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on accepting the Bradley Foundation’s Jeane Kirkpatrick prize at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
High Rolling on Hudson
St. John’s University President “describes himself as a ‘Brooklyn guy,’ suggesting a naivete about the high-rolling lives of Saudi princes and other money men who have given prolifically to St. John’s over the years.”~Chronicle of…
Sustainability Behind The Curve
Although universities have long been envisaged as incubators of new ideas, in actuality they usually provide life support to concepts long-time passed.
Following Money: NYU Scandal
“The central but by no means sole figure in this scandal is Jacob J. Lew, the Obama administration’s new Treasury secretary, who worked at N.Y.U. in the early 2000s for a salary that eventually reached $900,000, larger even than Dr. Sexton’s at the time.”—NYU Sociologist Jeff Goodwin
Bad As It Gets
Author M. Stanton Evans got an early lesson in his law of inadequate paranoia: “No matter how bad you think things are, when you look into them you find that they are a lot worse.”
Another Bubble: Law Schools
Apparently, we’re living in the age of bubbles—housing, financial, etc. The only thing they don’t have is their own reality show. The next one is about to burst all over the legal profession.
What We Can Learn
Perhaps today’s “thought leaders” would think more clearly if they spent more time studying the thinkers of the past.
Recent Articles
Thomas Jefferson Statue Vandalized with Red Paint at UVA
Vandals threw red paint on the statue of Founding Father Thomas Jefferson at the University of Virginia, marking another vandalized statue in the U.S.
Protesters at North Carolina Demand Confederate Statue be Removed
Protesters demanded that UNC remove its ‘Silent Sam’ statue from its campus, which memorializes the university’s students who fought for the Confederacy in the American Civil War.
Progressive Humor: A Really Thin Book
Just ask students at UC-San Diego.
Charter School Helps Native Americans
Those who wish to aid Native Americans may want to think “outside the box,” or at least outside the public school system.
Two Universities are Joining in the Historical Overcorrection after Charlottesville
Two colleges plan on joining the political correctness-driven drive to overcorrect for namesakes on their college campuses, one being named after a signatory to the Declaration of Independence.
Not a Joke: Catholic School Removes Statues of Mary, Jesus in the Name of Inclusion
A Catholic school decided to remove statues of Mary and Jesus in the name of inclusivity.
What’s in a confederate name?
Ask ESPN.
Fordham University has 87 Different Bias Reporting Programs
Fordham University has 87 programs designed to promote bias reporting/response on their campus. Isn’t that a bit much?
Police Investigation Finds Serial Rape Accuser at Delta College
A Michigan college had a case of a young woman who made several accusations of rape claims, which was not the case, per local police.
Hip Hop in Crisis
Those who long for a traditional high school or college curriculum, particularly when they never experienced one, might not appreciate the internal conflicts that plague multicultural education.
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…
Recent Posts
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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