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Doubtless the president’s amen corner in academia loved it when he answered a debate question on jobs with a dissertation on education. Yet while academics may have stomped and whistled, those unenlightened folk outside the faculty lounge might be forgiven if they find the First Answer clueless.

As if he hasn’t had enough bad news, now the presdent faces a study finding him wanting from one of his key constituencies—academia.

Co-author of failed foreign policy continues to offer input from academic berth.

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.

When academics actually get a chance to implement international law, justice doesn’t take a back seat: It gets kicked out of the car.

Many presidents have, on occasion, done weird things—only one president of the 44 is Weird.

The war on Christmas has been waged for a number of years.

For decades, media elites and academics alike have accepted the accounts that veterans of the anti-Vietnam War movement gave of themselves, particularly when those vets occupied academic berths.

One of the crowning ironies of the age, to use a really pretentious phrase, is that the main site of anti-war rallies staged over the past decade—academia—is also the source of American foreign policy in Iraq.

Believe it or not, a Republican president may be benefiting from some revisionist history.  Indeed, the academic literature on George Herbert Walker Bush, although brief, like his presidency, is mostly, so far, laudatory.

The secularization of Christmas is nothing new. Christianity Today in 2002 reported that in the Vietnamese province of Dak Lak, children’s choirs were forbidden to sing “Silent Night.” From 1969 to 1997, Christmas was banned in Cuba