Perspectives

The roster of actual mathematicians taking issue with the math in Common Core grows. “In mathematics, mastery of several calculation…

When a veteran academic finds something notable in a Republican president’s administration, it’s generally the expansion of a federal government…

It’s interesting that some of those who would make the “living Constitution” argument seem most anxious to put the old…

Alarm over the growth of the national security state seems to wane among liberals when Democrats are in the White…

Academics have long vexed over urban studies, putting the flight out of major cities down to everything from technology to…

Academics have made a cottage industry of their concern over human rights but their consciousness gets raised pretty selectively. “In…

In recent days the Obama administration has attempted to separate itself from MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber’s comments regarding the torturous…

Jonathan Gruber, a MIT economist who was instrumental in helping craft the ObamaCare healthcare law, has been exposed as a…

A pair of activists in the state of Washington are promoting an anti-Israel curriculum that high school social studies teachers…

Next year, thousands of English professors head to Vancouver for the annual Modern Language Association (MLA) convention. Let’s hope they…

Universities and colleges are slow to adjust to the new student: one who isn’t full-time and living on-campus, but the…

This is the week that Americans honor military veterans. On America’s college campuses, the attitude towards them is more ambivalent,…