Given the Court’s failure to clarify the constitutionality of racial preferences, the issue continues to roil nationwide.
Recent Articles
Bad Coaching
Liberals truly believe everyone who has any intelligence at all must think exactly as they do…or they need see a shrink.
The Child Abuse of Teacher Union Politics
As Dr. Cheri Yecke shows in her study, “Kids, Schools, and Politics: Protecting the Integrity of Taxpayer Resources,” teacher-union politicking does not begin when the school day ends.
Games and Fun at Harvard
Campus Report’s “Squeaky Chalk” columnist reviews the Summers’ controversy and the war for fun.
Wanted: Conservatives (Not)
You can get an idea of what conservatives on America’s college campuses are up against by looking at a recent want ad posted on the University of Tennessee at Knoxville site.
Darwin Descending
Darwinism has severe problems in both its validity and its ramifications. But seldom do these problems surface, and rarely are they taught in the educational system.
Who is looking out for campus conservatives?
Religious, Republican, and Libertarian student organizations allow campus conservatives to coalesce; there’s truth to the old adage of strength in numbers.
Not So Great Expectations
A new report issued by Achieve, Inc. reveals yet another shortcoming in the education system, the “expectations gap.”
The gods of global warming
On American campuses, belief in global warming and man’s contribution to it approaches the theological. Actual meteorologists take a more nuanced approach.
Hippies Lose Protest Movement to Campus Conservatives
From Yale to the University of North Carolina, liberal academia is being challenged by a new generation of conservative leadership.
Recent Articles
Catholic Colleges: Quo Vadis?
Catholic colleges operating in the secular world could go the way of Protestant colleges in the last century or so.
The Real Thought Leaders
When you cover ersatz intellectuals day in and day out as we do here at Accuracy in Academia, it is refreshing to meet genuine scholars.
Stalin, A Bloodless Editor
After all these decades, an academic finally found something negative to say about Soviet dictator Josef Stalin: He was a tyrannical…editor.
Ultimate Man of Letters
Last weekend, the Philadelphia Society met at its regional meeting in Atlanta to celebrate the life and thoughts of one of its members—Russell Kirk, arguably one of the pre-eminent men of letters in the twentieth Century.
Last Subsidized, First Cherished
In the private sector, the rule of thumb in economic downturns is, “Last hired, first fired.” Get government involved and that principle gets turned on its head.
Common Core Rollbacks?
Common Core, the Obama Administration’s education reform program, has been exposed as untested, subpar and even outdated by international standards, despite the federal government’s sales pitch to states.
Will Work For Theories
The notion of a college education as a path to material success is starting to require artificial respiration.
Ike & The Constitution
In April 1953, Senator John Bricker of Ohio introduced the Bricker Amendment to the Constitution. In the wake of the secret “Executive Compacts” that FDR and Truman had made with Stalin during World War II.
Common Core: Trojan Horse?
Former Republican governors supporting President Obama’s Common Core education reforms may be riding a Trojan Horse.
Defending Western history
Recently, one of our favorite authors—Diana West, author of American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character— has been attacked, not from the Left but from prominent pundits who identify themselves as conservatives.