As commencement approaches, this year’s graduating seniors can look forward to pep talks about how employable humanities majors are. “Upon graduating from college, those who majored in the humanities and social science made, on average,…
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High Road to Serfdom
The startling thing about the books academics typically dismiss as relics of the past is the uncanny manner in which they anticipate the present.
Liberals Want Good Teachers
A hot-button issue among educators appears to be “equitable access” to effective teachers, a buzzword at a recent event at the Center for American Progress (CAP).
The Conservatives’ Big Tent
Conservatives Outnumber Liberals in 47 States, Professor Says
English Professors Moral Panic
If you love literature, you might find it easier to actually buy it than take a course in it.
Gender Pay Data Gap
On Monday, at the Center for American Progress (CAP), a trio of scholars alternately claimed that there is a gender pay gap and insisted that we need to pass laws to get data to prove that there is.
Religious Profiling at UNC
At the University of North Carolina Wilmington, Dr. Mike Adams teaches crime — but he never dreamed he’d be the victim of one.
Abyss of Area Studies
College and universities have one thing in common with the federal government, along with the cash that flows from the latter to the former: They seem to be following Einstein’s definition of insanity.
Post-racial America?
A panel at the Center for American Progress discussed “The Meaning of Race in a 21st-Century America,” billed as an “in-depth discussion on the meaning of race and ethnicity in a changing America.”
Ayn Rand Reconsidered
She’s been derided in academia for decades: Panels disparaging her works are not unusual at the Modern Language Association’s annual confab.