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Somewhat true to its name, the Modern Language Association (MLA) has transformed the word “imaginary” from an adjective into a noun. “In the dominant United States imaginary, some children are more sacred than others,” Sarah Ropp of the University of Texas at Austin said at an MLA panel on “The Profane West.” She cited the […]

At the Modern Language Association’s annual convention, this year held in Austin, Texas, leftist language professors marched to the State Capitol in downtown Austin to voice their opposition with the state’s newest campus carry laws (where it is legal to carry a legal firearm on public university grounds). Assembling in the hotel conference center before […]

On Friday, our staff writer Spencer Irvine and AIM Chairman Don Irvine went to meet with March for Life attendees near the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. before the march began. VIDEO: Students chanting, “We are the Pro-Life Generation”: VIDEO: Signs at the March for Life:

As the College Fix noted: The overseers of the residential houses are no longer “masters,” but that doesn’t mean everything tinged with slavery at Harvard should be washed of its context. That’s according to Harvard President Drew Faust, a Civil War historian, who told The Harvard Crimson she was wary of changing the law school seal and […]

A panel of professors at the Modern Language Association’s annual convention, this time held in Austin, Texas, argued about feminism and sexism in today’s young adult (YA) novels in “The Hunger Games” and other similar dystopian novels. Erin Kingsley, an associate professor of English at King University (Tennessee), started her remarks proclaiming her love for […]

The Modern Language Association (known as MLA) gathers annually in a liberal city of their choice early in the month of January. These professors, graduate students and PhD candidates specialize in language, literature and many obscure academic subjects and are indoctrinating America’s future leaders. What do they discuss? Topics such as: Black Lives Matter and anti-police […]

In the Lone Star State, where open carry is now legal in public places, the Modern Language Association thought it was timely to protest guns on public college campuses, called “campus carry” by advocates and opponents alike. The language professors were in Austin, Texas for their annual convention and set aside time in their busy […]

The Modern Language Association’s (MLA) new punching bag is due process, as one session in their annual convention demonstrated (The convention was held in Austin, Texas this year.) In the session, entitled, “Narrating College Sexual Assault,” Donna Potts, a creative writing professor at Washington State, shared her own experience as a young college freshman who […]

Harriet Beecher Stowe, European gardens and gender bias were discussed in a recent Modern Language Association (MLA) panel at their annual convention held this year in Austin, Texas. The panel, entitled, “Bootstrapping Broads: On the Work of Writing Labor.” Gretchen Murphy, a professor of English at the University of Texas-Austin, spoke at length about Harriet […]

Maybe it’s time we revived that phrase “question authority.” “The president’s ironclad confidence in the conclusiveness of the science, and therefore the desirability of ‘common-sense gun safety laws,’ is echoed widely with every new mass shooting, from academia to the popular press to that guy you knew from high school on Facebook,” Brian Doherty writes in the […]

We have spared no shortage of blog space on our problems with George Washington University over the past three decades. Nonetheless, we found something worthwhile on their Foggy Bottom campus that all who are in the vicinity of it should check out—an art exhibit at the Textile Museum there. Indeed, the late Lily Spandorf (1914-2000) […]

George Washington University’s Program on Extremism published a recent study entitled, “From Retweets to Raqqa,” to highlight the growing social media presence and radicalization efforts of the Islamic State (known by some as IS, ISIS, ISIL or Daesh). The study found that the motivations and backgrounds of U.S.-based ISIS sympathizers vary by race, age, social […]