Many Catholics, especially conservative ones, obviously aren’t thrilled with the pope’s new encyclical. I find myself once again spending a lot of time explaining to non-Catholics why the current pope is either not a Marxist…
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In Epps Analysis of Executive Order
Editor’s Note: University of Baltimore Law Professor Garrett Epps Strikes Out Again Governor Jindal’s attempt to protect individual rights from government intrusion has received the now all-too-familiar slander and cranky response from those who don’t…
Liberal Academic Says America’s Founding Document Outmoded
Top Vatican adviser Jeffrey Sachs says that when Pope Francis visits the United States in September, he will directly challenge the “American idea” of God-given rights embodied in the Declaration of Independence. Sachs, a special…
Boston University Professor Offers Non-Apology for Racist Tweets
Sociology professor Saida Grundy disparaged whites via Twitter, and they’re not appropriate at all for a professor who teaches young Americans. She said she’s sorry, but not really sorry after the university condemned her tweets. Not good…
UT-Austin Unrepentant on Affirmative Action
For higher education administrators, affirmative action remains a topic of concern. In Fisher v. The University of Texas at Austin, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that race can be a determining factor regarding student admission….
Ferguson Remembered
Universities are still trying to make a teachable moment out of the tragedy which occurred in Ferguson, Missouri last summer but considerably less so of the death of sidewalk vendor Eric Garner at the hands…
Common Core on the Ropes
The Common Core education standards are not advancing as supporters had hoped and the Obama Administration that promoted them bears much of the blame, according to a journal of the education establishment. “Common Core has…
American Slavery + Environmentalism + Cyberspace?
“Atlantic Empiricisms” was the name of a panel discussion at the 2015 Modern Language Association convention in Vancouver, Canada, and it was as bare as the title suggested. Britt Rusert, who teaches English at the…
White Reds Exploiting Blacks in Ferguson
If Ferguson 2014 is remembered on an objective basis by our media, we will be reminded of an unprovoked attack on a white policeman by a black thug named Michael Brown, who was high on…
Post-Colonial Evils in Africa
There might be a reason why academics don’t dwell on the specifics of life in post-colonial Africa. In a panel discussion at the libertarian think tank Cato Institute, prominent human rights activist, author and farmer…