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It might surprise some education policy analysts who look enviously at the German method of education as a model for the United States to learn that at least one Teutonic intellectual admires the American system.

Everything that is wrong with higher education, and, for that matter, most major media, was on stunning display for the past two years as the district attorney in Durham, North Carolina attempted to prosecute a bogus rape case against three Duke lacrosse players.

In promoting their latest cause, liberals have managed to enlist a member of a small group getting smaller by the year—conservatives in academia.

Claims that professors use their classroom positions to indoctrinate rather than educate their students crop up frequently in today’s polarized political climate. A geography course at Chapel Hill appears to be a perfect example.

Tufts University’s Tisch Civil Engagement Program is likely to change the approach to higher education system at U.S Colleges and Universities in the near future.

Look for the latest documentary from self-described gadfly Michael Moore to make the rounds of American college campuses in the not-so-distant future.

It is very clear that Iraq will be a major part of the inheritance of the next U.S. president whether that chief executive is a Republican or Democrat.

Miriam Grossman, M.D., author of Unprotected, is fed up with the politically correct expectations of psychiatry, which have led her to avoid discussing the psychological ramifications of faith, promiscuity, abortion, and infertility with her patients at UCLA.

General David H. Petraeus told a congressional committee on Monday that in Iraq “we will be able to reduce our forces to the pre-surge level of brigade combat teams by next summer.”

University administrators have long advocated pulling their endowment funds out of investments that benefit countries that the elites find odious yet while they have divested themselves of holdings in nations such as South Africa or Israel, they are reluctant to pull their chips out of Iran, no matter how many terrorist watch lists U. S. government agencies put the regime on.

At the same time that American students are becoming more and more technologically adept, they are increasingly less and less likely to possess rudimentary capabilities, data from the National School Boards Association (NSBA) indicates.

Over the last half century, America has become embroiled in a culture war between so-called Open Society liberals and Reaganite conservatives.