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January 7, 2011

Where Did Those Mushy "No Labels" Ideas Come From?

George Leef

In this sharp essay, Mary Grabar links the intellectually mushy "No Labels" movement to academic fads that decried logic and debate as just bad male habits.

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January 7, 2011

Faculty Productivity

George Leef

In today's Pope Center piece, Duke Cheston writes about his findings regarding the UNC political science department. Have tenured faculty engaged in some successful "rent seeking" to reduce the......

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January 6, 2011

Duked Out

Glenn Ricketts

Duke history Professor Peter Wood, not to be confused with NAS's president of the same name. seems to use the classroom to malign the character of students, lacrosse players in particular. Never......

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January 6, 2011

Introducing Inside Academia: The Bloggingheads of Education

Ashley Thorne

Blogger is thrilled about the launch of Inside Academia.

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January 6, 2011

Boring

Peter Wood

Boredom shouldn’t be able to find an inch of space in college classrooms, but, says Peter Wood, we have welcomed it in.

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