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Believe it or not, the Nobel Prize authorities and the academic elite lionize a writer who denounces both communism and feminism. That’s because they honor her for the opinions that she held before she changed her mind.

While the “separation of Church and State” crowd has been noticeably mum on the opening of charter schools such as the Kahil Gibran Academy in Brooklyn, the efforts of other religions can still provoke their ire.

A library featuring the personal
papers of anti-communist hero Whittaker Chambers will be opened on the site of
his farm.

College English professors are trying to teach students how to write when some of these same pupils haven’t read much.

One of the unfortunate effects of the interdisciplinary approach to education is that it encourages English professors to regard themselves as astute on subjects on which they are clearly not, such as economics.

Another religiously affiliated university trying to be diplomatic may be in danger of becoming Catholic in Name Only (CINO).

Among college English professors, the passing on of literary traditions and literacy has gone from avocation to afterthought to alien concept, as can be seen in the annual conventions of the Modern Language Association.

Philadelphia is not just a place where Broadway shows go on out of town tryouts. When the Modern Language Association meets there, Ph.D. candidates test their theses there too.

The academic left has painted itself into a peculiar corner. They urge the rejection of traditional grammar as chauvinistic, or, more frequently, “hegemonic.” Unfortunately for them, they eventually have to read papers by students who have previously been taught by teachers who also share this outlook.

When yet another distinguished (read, tenured) academic emerges from the Ivory Tower to defend institutions of higher learning from their, mostly, external, critics, that professor usually proves to be the latest poster child for what is wrong with American colleges and universities today.

Two university professors recently concluded that Fox News coverage helped elect President Bush.

Cries of McCarthyist oppression keep coming from the left and the Modern Language Association convention is no exception.