The new book, Spies, The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev (Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2009) provides us with valuable new information about how the KGB penetrated the United States government in the 1930s and 40s.
Read the articleThe conservative pundits seeking to accumulate intellectual bona fides by aping the intelligentsia’s call to “forget Ronald Reagan” only succeed in proving themselves to be as vacuous as the allegedly educated elite.
Read the articleWhen Nobel-prize winning economist Amartya Sen released his book Development as Freedom in 1999, his argument that democratic freedoms had an economic component in the developing world was greeted with acclaim. Now a World Bank employee building upon Sen’s conception of positive and negative freedoms is arguing that the twin discourses of human rights and development need to reach an accord.
Read the articleThe winner of Accuracy in Media’s 2009 Reed Irvine investigative journalism award passes on some valuable life lessons to the next generation.
Read the articleThe winner of Accuracy in Media’s 2009 Reed Irvine lifetime achievement award for investigative journalism gives aspiring journalists some free lessons worth more than the ones that they pay big bucks for in top-name universities.
Read the articleA Baptist minister gave a sermon on economics that the ACLU and the Americans United for the Separation of Church and State would surely regard as crossing the theological divide.
Read the articleThe winner of Accuracy in Media’s 2009 Reed Irvine award for a lifetime of achievement in investigative journalism gives examples of media bias that you probably haven’t heard.
Read the articleThe academic antipathy toward Joe McCarthy was in full swing at this year’s Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention.
Read the articleProfessors generous with their time and ideas frequently concoct policies that U.S. presidents of both parties adopt.
Read the articleAn argument could be made that this past presidential election was not so much a choice between a liberal and a conservative as much as what some authors might term a contest between feminine and masculine progressives.
Read the articleAmerica’s so-called intellectual elites remain either smugly ignorant or in outright denial of the West’s struggle with communism that consumed much of the 20th Century and is still too much with us, late and soon.
Read the articleAccuracy in Academia will feature Troy University professor Chris Warden, author of the forthcoming Voodoo Anyone? Economics for Journalists, which AIA is publishing, in a special book forum at the National Press Club on July 30.
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