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An aspect of the Clinton Years that most academic historians might miss: When Larry Flynt is feeling righteous, he describes himself as a crusader: for civil liberties in general and free speech in particular.” So begins a profile of porn king Larry Flynt in Bloomberg. “But now Bloomberg Politics can exclusively report that the impresario […]

Black conservative Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson is everything Barack Obama is not. That’s why he has to be destroyed. In a desperate move, The Washington Post ran a more than 2,500-word article on Sunday warning Carson to stop criticizing Obama. What were Carson’s crimes? He offered “a conservative critique of U.S. health-care and spending […]

Film buffs could make a case that the art of film has deteriorated with the prevalence of film school grads working in it. After all, the men, and they were mostly men, who made the 70- and 80 year old movies we still watch managed to avoid it. Case in point: director Frank Capra, whose […]

Can it be that students gather annually around the country to construct a “Model United Nations” because the real one has failed so miserably? “What good does it do?” Judge Jeanine Pirro asked a packed, admittedly conservative audience at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington, D. C. last Tuesday. Judge Pirro was in town to […]

As the Chronicle of Higher Education reported: “Most of the benefits, they say, result because endowments are exempt from capital-gains taxes. Mr. Klor de Alva, president of the Nexus center, and Mr. Schneider, a vice president of American Institutes of Research and president of College Measures, highlight the ways these “invisible” tax breaks disproportionately flow […]

Try as they might, when proponents of early federally funded pre-school education ala  Head Start try to make the case for their cause, they can’t quite seal the deal.  “There is one study that shows that the benefits of pre-K education will wash out after four years,” Governor Terry McAuliffe, D-VA, claimed at the Center […]

No protests or counter-protests occurred, but police were stationed outside. As the credits rolled, the filled-to-capacity room (a 150-person capacity) boomed with applause.

There’s a reason you don’t see many Adam Smith ties in the faculty lounge. “Adam Smith believed there are few things that the government should do,” James Otteson of Wake Forest said at the Philadelphia Society’s annual meeting in Philadelphia last month. Otteson is the Executive Director of the BB&T Center for the Study of […]

Whatever his merits or demerits, the actual front-runner for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination continues to show how Republican candidates, at least on education, can lead on, rather than be overwhelmed by, issues. “Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R), a front runner in the contest for the Republican nomination for president, made bold reforms of elementary, […]

Winston Churchill and Charles De Gaulle were eerily similar political figures, said Hillsdale politics professor Will Morrisey at a recent Kirby Center lecture in Washington, D.C. Both had to rally their people and country to fight against the German, Russian and eventually Soviet threats facing them. And, both went about it in different ways. It […]

Today, at the Heritage Foundation, 14 people from various walks of M. Stanton Evans’ life gathered to honor him. To say there was more laughter than tears is only to note the hilarity of so many of the memories people shared of Stan, whose legendary dry wit is one of his indelible legacies. His far […]

When author M. Stanton “Stan” Evans died last week at age 80, Accuracy in Academia and the conservative movement lost an irreplaceable friend and mentor, as did many of us personally. Those of us who have lost parents and grandparents got to experience a similar loss again. Yet and still, it is worth noting that […]