Search results for "climate change"

The piece was published by Salon, so take it with a grain of salt: Sophia McClennen, a professor of international affairs and comparative literature at Pennsylvania State University, recently sounded off on why she believes Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show” ratings are sagging – Republicans won’t watch it because they’re too thickheaded to get his clever jokes! “It […]

When it comes to evidence of global warming, who are you going to believe, your professors or the facts? “While it is common these days for politicians, journalists, and other observers to say the climate is warming ‘faster than expected,’ the data show that, over the past two decades, warming has actually slowed down to […]

The deputy assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education spoke at the left-wing think tank Center for American Progress this past week. After his remarks, several leaders of afterschool nonprofit programs participated in a panel discussion on the expansion and value of afterschool programs. Jonathan Brice, deputy assistant secretary at the Department of Education, told […]

Law professors Jonathan Turley of George Washington University and Nicholas Rosenkranz of Georgetown slammed President Obama’s “muscular presidency” as dangerously unconstitutional. The Federalist Society hosted these speakers in a panel discussion entitled, “Suspension of Laws: What are the Limits of Executive Authority?” Turley said that President Obama has completely ignored and “circumvented” Congress. After all […]

The startling thing about the books academics typically dismiss as relics of the past is the uncanny manner in which they anticipate the present.

Often we find that what is most revealing in covering the higher education beat is what academics reveal about themselves.

Recently, some pedagogues have found new outlets for intimidation.

Nobody can miss the point like a well-paid, federally subsidized scholar.

Yale economist compares global warming skeptics to Hitler-appeasing Neville Chamberlain.

At Accuracy in Academia’s June 21 Author’s Night Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski discussed the premises of their book The Blueprint: Obama’s Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency.

GW Hatchet writers are “embarrassed” that their school didn’t make it into the Princeton Review’s Guide to 286 Green Colleges due to a miscommunication.

At a recent book forum at the American Enterprise Institute, AEI scholar Frederick Hess argued that education reform should move beyond whole-school conceptions of school choice and focus on the dynamics of “supply.”