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Editor’s Note: This report originally appeared at the American Spectator. I’ve been getting emails from bewildered colleagues asking about a survey of presidential scholars that determined that Barack Obama is the 12th best president in the history of the United States, putting him near the top quartile of our presidents. How can this be? I, too, was […]

Even when they are trying to be even-handed, academics can’t hide their biases. “While it is certainly true that the public has a decidedly negative view on ‘the way things are going in the country today,’ (to borrow the wording of a recent poll by the Pew Research Center), it is less well known that […]

Since everybody else is rating presidents, we thought we’d give it a shot too, since we’ve covered many of them, especially those who served in the last century. The root of the word president, eminent historian Steve Hayward reminds us, is preside. Thus, we looked at the economies and foreign policies that these leaders presided […]

TORONTO, ONTARIO  — During June to August 2004, I spent three very memorable months in Poland. On July 3 (on the eve of the American holiday), I attended a large, informal celebration called “American Day” at the small, historic town of Nieszawa, which lies near the Vistula River, about 200 kilometers north-west of Warsaw, in […]

An aspect of the Clinton Years that most academic historians might miss: When Larry Flynt is feeling righteous, he describes himself as a crusader: for civil liberties in general and free speech in particular.” So begins a profile of porn king Larry Flynt in Bloomberg. “But now Bloomberg Politics can exclusively report that the impresario […]

Although it may be considered quaint to recall the Reagan years during the Obama era,  particularly in academic circles, a case could be made for doing so. “And though Barack Obama won two terms, he was the first president in history to be reelected with fewer popular and Electoral College votes than he received in […]

Why don’t “conservatives” in Congress have more success in fighting the government education monolith?

Although it may be considered quaint to recall the Reagan years during the Obama era,  particularly in academic circles, a case could be made for doing so.

Perhaps one of the unfortunate byproducts of the lumping together of English and History under the rubric “Humanities” is that English professors start to think of themselves as historians. When they try to be, they prove that they are not.

Obama may have won a second term in November, but that doesn’t mean that everyone is 100% satisfied and that includes the members of the Modern Language Association.

Just one of the many misconceptions about conservatives, particularly in the academy, is that we all come off of an assembly line. To preserve this fiction, academics prefer to study us from a distance, if at all.

Columnist Ann Coulter likes to remark that for liberals, history began when they woke up in the morning, but it’s also helpful for conservatives to remember that the past has a long shelf-life.