America’s first openly gay governor becomes the latest Democratic officeholder not to let the revolving door into academia hit him on the way out of elected office.
Read the articleBorder, a new independent documentary film confronting the hot topic of illegal immigration along the Mexican border is receiving rave reviews on college campuses. Border films what is really happening in the southwest.
Read the articleAcademics trying to rewrite the Reagan years may need magicians’ mirrors because the actual data don’t support the spin that these “public scholars” would dearly like to put on the 80s.
Read the articleCould adhering to Darwinism help the conservative cause? Yes, according to Larry Arnhart, who spoke on the topic this week during a heated panel discussion at the American Enterprise Institute. He calls this new way of thinking, “Darwinian Conservatism”.
Read the articleDespite the fact that Brad Johnson, a respected 30-year veteran teacher in San Diego’s Poway Unified School District, had displayed several education banners in his classroom referencing “God” for nearly 25 years, school officials nonetheless ordered him to take them down.
Read the articleDesre’e Watson, a kindergartener in Avon Park Florida, was recently arrested at her school and charged with a felony and two misdemeanors.
Read the articleWhile public school students may start next year with more educational options, they may also be pushed to grow up a little too fast
Read the articleHarvard University’s Institute of Politics (IOP) Student Survey Group recently released their “10 Things Politicians Should Know About Young People” based on their results from an online national poll of 2,923 18-24 year-olds.
Read the articleCan it be that economics has its reputation as the dismal science because of the way it is taught? Economist Peter G. Klein, in his appreciation of the founder of the Austrian School of Economics—Carl Menger— indicates that may be the case.
Read the articlePhil Rosenthal of the Chicago Tribune notes the strange decision by NBC to put its NBC News logo and the NBC peacock, “in all its multicolored glory,” on the videos and photos that it released of Virginia Tech mass murderer Cho Seung Hui.
Read the articleInstitutions of higher learning, designed to be the most temperate pillars of society, produce some of America’s most intemperate and unsubstantiated rhetoric; and the two Granddaddies of grandiloquence have to be Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn.
Read the articleFor many of us, the bloody horrors at Virginia Tech served as a sudden and painful reminder that we live in a fallen world where man is capable of unthinkable evil.
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