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In the days before Wayne Gretzky brought elegance to hockey, a running joke about the sport was, “I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.” Something like this might be said of the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association (MLA), where thousands of English professors from around the world gather to […]

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at the American Spectator. “The most important task,” said communist dictator Kim Il Sung in October 1971, in his address to the Democratic Women’s Union of North Korea, “is to revolutionize and working-classize all the women.” Kim hoisted the torch blazed by glorious female comrades such as Alexandra Kollontai […]

At the Modern Language Association (MLA) annual convention in Philadelphia this year, we got to see some of the “Creative Responses to Black Lives Matter” They included: A filmed street theater presentation on “The Shooting of Africa,” presented by Kimberly Welch of UCLA, and featuring actors with signs. A group called #JusticeforFlint, that did a […]

As we saw from interviews with students at last weekend’s protests, higher education, and lower, probably need to spend more time on self-improvement and less on self-esteem, just to further their own interests. For example, there was, as usual, at least one feminist who wanted to end women’s suffrage. You would think our left-wing friends […]

From Malkin’s blog: Hoodlums will be out in full force this Inauguration Day weekend. Count on it. I’ve covered the left’s criminal anarchist element for more than 20 years — from the animal rights terrorists who have harassed, threatened and firebombed scientific researches across the U.S. and Europe to the anti-capitalist thugs who wreaked havoc on downtown […]

It is startling to realize how much the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. accomplished in a life span that did not even reach 40 years. At last year’s Modern Language Association (MLA) convention, Adrienne Brown of the University of Chicago remembered, arguably, one of Dr. King’s less successful crusades. In 1966 Dr. King and his […]

From The College Fix: President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, is being declared unfit to serve not for her best-known cause – K-12 reform and school choice – but because the Michigan billionaire made relatively small donations to FIRE. Politico reports that the $10,000 DeVos has given to the group are leading […]

From School Reform News, published by the Heartland Institute: Having students think about religion increases their political tolerance and ability to delay gratification, new research suggests. The study’s conclusions call into question choice programs that tend to favor public charter schools over private schools. The study, titled “Losing My Religion? The Impact of Spiritual Cues […]

Even with his federal prosecutorial experience, 1,300 professors do not think Alabama U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions is qualified to be the next Attorney General. This from Campus Reform: The petition cites allegations of “prejudice against African Americans” by Sessions, charges which cost him a federal judgeship in 1986, as grounds for a rejection, though few of the […]

One of the speakers at this year’s Modern Language Association (MLA) meeting brought up a fascinating quote by William Wordsworth that may well be an indictment of the annual conclave of English professors: “To dissect is to murder.” If that is so, much of the professoriat at the MLA meeting could be up on assault […]

The Democrats have been saying that there’s proof that the Russians hacked into Democratic Party computers for the purpose of obtaining and planting information that would help elect Donald J. Trump as president. But the proof wasn’t provided when President Obama issued an executive order and announced the expulsions of Russians from the U.S., and […]

A Soros-funded faux Catholic group called Faith in Public Life is holding what it calls a “special briefing” on “Faithful Resistance to Rising White Nationalism,” featuring Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). This exercise is designed to further demonize white Americans who are waking up to what President Obama has done to […]