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Andrew Ferguson,  a veteran journalist who provided a helpful chronicle of the comedy of errors that is the college application process in his book Crazy U, will be the featured speaker at Accuracy in Academia’s next author’s night on October 26, 2011 from 6-8 PM. Free food will be provided.

The Ayn Rand Institute hosted a panel discussion at the National Press Club which highlighted the issues facing the Middle East.

Capitol Hill habitués here in Washington, D. C. got a chance to experience a bit of what life is like on a college campus today in a debate at the Heritage Foundation on Tuesday.

Václav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, in a Hillsdale College-sponsored cruise event, spoke about the roots of the current economic problems facing the European Union (EU), as well as its significance to Americans.

They found a guilty convict.

“Some people may escape poverty and low incomes through education, but a problem arises when education becomes the only escape route from those conditions—because that road will very quickly become bottlenecked.”—John Marsh, assistant professor of English at Penn State

Dr. Anthony Bradley, author of the new book Black and Tired: Essays on Race, Politics, Culture, and International Development, spoke at the Heritage Foundation about his research on the downward moral trend of black culture in America.

The long-held academic instinct to “make a game out of it” when teaching is becoming so widespread that it threatens to completely eclipse actual education.

Once upon a time, beauty pageant contestants would wow judges with vows to end world hunger. Apparently they’ve succeeded.

With the unveiling of a controversial memorial to slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, it is useful to explore the black history that academia ignores.

Academics salivate at the chance to put their pet theories into practice but when they actually are able to, they’re usually the last ones to recognize the unintended consequences of their schemes.

When we first encountered Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz’s assertion that the Iraq War led to the sub-prime mortgage crisis, we found the assertion a bit of a reach. It turns out that there may have been more to it than met the eye.