There’s only one thing that a politically correct university hates more than hosting a conservative think tank on its campus and that is when the guest scholar accumulates more prestige than the host institution.
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The 50-50 Myth
An urban legend about marriage and divorce rates that most students can recite in their sleep.
Berkeley’s Best and Worst
The problem is that half of the cream-of-the-crop courses are in Political Science while half of the worst are in history, economics and, yes, business administration.
Affirmative Action for Foreign Policy
Foreign policy is overrun by a “religion avoidance disorder” so severe that foundations must offer grants to encourage departments to integrate faith issue into their classes.
An Embarassment of Riches
Universities and colleges which routinely direct students to Planned Parenthood clinics help to swell the already swollen coffers of the group but then so does the Bush Administration.
Non-Embryonic Stem Cell Breakthrough
Researchers make another medical breakthrough in stem cell research without embryos.
Stuck in the Middle
If you don’t graduate from college you are a failure; if you don’t go to college you are a failure; if you fail to complete high school you are a failure. Why?
Tendentious Antiwar Scholarship
The mainstream media is aghast and agog reporting yet another study, from another expert, claiming how wasteful the war in Iraq is, how Bush lied, and how the war is killing the country.
Don’t Scout Don’t Tell
Could the Boy Scouts of the New Millenium be going the way of the Girls Scouts in the last century?
Iraq War Spending Deconstructed
One possible unintended consequence of staying in Iraq for 100 years that John McCain probably never contemplated is the prospect of professors staging anti-war protests for the next century.
Recent Articles
PR Stunt? Wheaton College Puts Hijab-Wearing Professor on Leave for Remarks Comparing Islam to Christianity
The headlines typically have read, “Christian college places professor who wore headscarf on leave,” as Fox News said. However, when you read their summary, it was not because of wearing the hijab, but her statements on…
D.C. Homeschooling Rises by a Third in Two Years
Home-based education is a rising trend in D.C. education.
California Public Employees Unions are Banding Together against Charter Schools
So these public sector employee unions are against improving children’s education with innovation of charter schools? Great *sarcasm*.
Confederate Flag Banned at Pennsylvania Public University
Kurtztown University in Pennsylvania issued the flag ban in their dorm halls.
The Rise of ISIS in America
The George Washington University Program on Extremism recently published a study on Islam-based extremism by sympathizers of the Islamic State (also known as ISIS, Daesh, or as the Obama administration says, ISIL). The study’s executive…
Canadian University Law School Finally Gets Accredited after Spat over Christian Beliefs
Via the College Fix: Even Canadian judges have limits when it comes to progressive attempts to punish religious belief. Six provinces have now agreed to recognized graduates of Trinity Western University’s law school, according to the…
Little Student Interest in Sexual Violence Prevention Workshops at Barnard
The women’s-only Barnard College, affiliated with Columbia University, held sexual violence prevention workshops after a survey of students found high rates of assault. But, only the student paper’s reporter showed up for them.
Los Angeles Public Schools Closed due to Credible Threat
All public schools in Los Angeles were closed to an undisclosed, but credible, security threat.
Free Speech Under Siege in America
A dangerous trend in America…will we be left with any free speech if the left-wing speech code fanatics have their way? Good take by our friend George Leef.
Academic Millionaires
You can always count on Democratic candidates for president to bash millionaires, even while cultivating their friendship and support behind the scenes. Yet and still, what you are never likely to hear is their inclusion…