August 5, 2011

Post Partisan University?

Glenn Ricketts

Check out this piece at IHE today, where the author discusses the lopsided ideological imbalance that currently rules the American academy and the fact that so many in the professoriate are obliviou......

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August 5, 2011

Madness and Civilization

Peter Wood

NAS President Peter Wood responds to the Manifesto of Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik.

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August 5, 2011

Collegiate Press Roundup

Glenn Ricketts

Student journalists take some shots at Congress's debt deal, the medical uses of marijuana, the value of a liberal arts education and why you can't be strictly honest with your parents about......

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August 5, 2011

Climate Thuggery

Peter Wood

NAS president Peter Wood ponders the difficulties of discussing climate change calmly and rationally.

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August 4, 2011

Climate Thugs Get Thuggish

Glenn Ricketts

Climate change, NAS president Peter Wood argues at his CHE blog, is not an easy subject to discuss calmly and rationally these days, especially in most academic precincts. Even the slightest dissent......

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August 4, 2011

Jan Blits on Campus Liberty

Ashley Thorne

At a recent gathering of college students, Professor Jan Blits, NAS's Delaware affiliate head, urged students not to take liberty for granted.

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August 3, 2011

AQ Author David French and Wife Publish Book on Serving in Iraq War

Ashley Thorne

Academic Questions author David French and his wife Nancy were interviewed on the 700 Club last month (8-minute video), discussing their new book, Here and Away, about their experiences during his t......

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August 3, 2011

The Double Whammy

George Leef

Jay Schalin writes about the phenomenon of entities that live off taxpayer money using some of that money to lobby for still more money. Specifically, he’s looking at the University of North C......

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August 3, 2011

Favorite Books: Jason Fertig

Jason Fertig offers his suggestions for summer reading.

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August 3, 2011

Admissions Insanity

John C. Chalberg

Historian John C. Chalberg reviews Andrew Ferguson's Crazy U, and concludes that the title has some merit.

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