Accuracy in Academia has devoted considerable attention to policies and practices at Boston College that make the institution run by the Jesuit order of priests sometimes look “Catholic in name only.”
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Of Monsters, Moms, and Metal Men
What do psychology, Jurassic Park, Star Trek, and Rouben Mamoulian’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde have in common? They represent lessons in developmental miscarriages, deadly toilet training, and inflamed bestial passions, according to three professors.
Obama’s Time For Choosing
Proponents of school choice typically hail from two groups: free marketers and civil rights advocates. Marquette University professor Howard Fuller hails from the latter persuasion.
Commentary School Fact Fudging
A University of Pennsylvania professor, and Washington Post media reporter have written analyses of a new Obama ad. But they are as flawed as the ad itself.
No Change for China
Has the media been overemphasizing the social importance of Chinese middle-class protests in order to advance the perception of a growing Chinese civil society?
Unfriendly Fire From Left
As the title of his book indicates, it is big-name Democrats Horowitz primarily takes to task for setbacks in the war on terror.
Benching Parents, Year-Round
Should parents be key players in year-round school assignment decisions? An ill-conceived appellate court decision this week says they shouldn’t.
Waist Deep In The Big Media
Schools are his favorite venue but media darling Pete Seeger may want to pass on more than folk songs to the next generation.
A Conservative in the Academy
If the common saying, “if you are young and not liberal, then you have no heart; but if you are old and not conservative, then you have no brain,” holds true, then why are our academies littered with aging Marxists and radical feminist professors?
In the Camp of the Luddites
My recent visit to a conference in Randolph gave me a glimpse of the kinds of individuals and groups who make up a large part of Vermont’s environmental Left.