A key dividing line between those within the Ivory Tower and those without might be on the issue of taxes: Academics like them while the rest of us clearly don’t.
Read the articleDecember 15 is Bill of Rights Day.
Read the articleWhen trying to convince dubious students of the benefits of social security when they are all too familiar with the costs, professors might well ask the question: “Who are you going to believe, me or your paycheck?”
Read the articleHope springs eternal in the academic breast, at least for the secular.
Read the articleNot content with the crowd of left-wing speakers at colleges and universities on land, the semester at sea program is extending this trend to the high seas.
Read the articleThose diversity mavens in academia want to keep at least one group out of their big tent—the U. S. military.
Read the articleOf all of the promises that America’s elites—from academia to the higher echelons of government—make to American youth, none may be quite so suspect as the promise of a greener future, in every sense of the word, if the young will only train for jobs of a similar hue.
Read the articleAcademics might be able to learn something from retired public officials.
Read the articleProfessors still believe that the woes that afflict higher education can be solved through federal intervention.
Read the articleBecause the conservatives most likely to be employed in academia are of the neo variety, students may not get an accurate picture of conservatism or, for that matter, America.
Read the articleWhat is known locally in Washington, D. C. as a dog-and-pony show is being played out across the country as proponents of the DREAM Act rally their troops to put this education spending proposal over the top.
Read the articleAlthough the exact date is in dispute, it is generally assumed that in the Fall of 1621 in the vicinity of Plymouth Plantation, a group of very grateful colonists set down to a bountiful feast.
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