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In the search for silver linings, school choice advocates can look to the hope that emerges in devastated regions.

“And the country I was born in had no meaningful civil liberty tradition whatsoever: Canada!”— Donald Alexander Downs, Alexander Meiklejohn Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on accepting the Bradley Foundation’s Jeane Kirkpatrick prize at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

Although universities have long been envisaged as incubators of new ideas, in actuality they usually provide life support to concepts long-time passed.

Author M. Stanton Evans got an early lesson in his law of inadequate paranoia: “No matter how bad you think things are, when you look into them you find that they are a lot worse.”

If students feel obliged to refrain from relaying tales of campus indoctrination, the dwindling ranks of conservative professors abide by an even more restrictive code of silence: Their livelihood is at stake.

Some may think we exaggerate how far a distance English Departments have traversed from Shakespeare and Milton. Just have a look at the program for the College English Association’s Middle Atlantic Group conference to be held this weekend at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland.

On his February 14 show, in order to hype the controversy and his own ratings, O’Reilly introduced Hill as “Dr. Marc Lamont Hill,” a professor at Columbia University in New York City, and “an ardent liberal guy, and that’s fine.”

Being a Republican In Name Only may be the kiss of death in GOP primaries but it’s a great selling point in academia.

Scientific genius Albert Einstein posited a theory, other than the scientific ones he is known for, that has withstood the test of time:  Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

“In higher education the social values of social cohesion and progress, social welfare and service, the institutional values of economy and efficiency and the academic values of knowledge, truth, and increase in intellectual capital are all in play and juxtaposed in deliberations common to the institution along with notions of the greater good, utility, universalizability, […]

Stopped clocks can be right twice a day. So can academics. But in neither case can they tell the difference between AM and PM.

Ayn Rand does provide much fodder for academics.