January 10, 2011
A winter course, "Sustainability and Social Justice," at the University of Chicago, will explore "biophilia" and "ecopedagogy."
January 7, 2011
You may have read about the latest attempt to make a classic work acceptable to contemporary PC sensibilities, in this case a new edition of Huckleberry Finn from which racial epithets - certainly aut......
January 7, 2011
At The Chronicle's Innovations blog, Rich Vedder discusses the overproduction of advanced degrees in the U.S.
January 7, 2011
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.
January 7, 2011
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......
January 6, 2011
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......
January 6, 2011
Boredom shouldn’t be able to find an inch of space in college classrooms, but, says Peter Wood, we have welcomed it in.
January 6, 2011
Back from semester break, student journalists have a look at prospects for the 2012 election, the need for increased campus activism and the influence of Wikileaks.
July 30, 2024
The dark secret of anti-Semitism is that ignorance alone cannot explain it away or absolve those who adhere to it. If anything, the most vivid episodes of history’s anti-Semitism have......
June 6, 2024
We have undermined the leftist status quo in higher education for decades with the persistence of Morlocks. You really should be more alarmed about us than you are. Not that I’m going......
August 6, 2024
An assessment of the Republican higher education platform....
May 15, 2015
A look at the double standard that has arisen regarding racism, illustrated recently by the reaction to a black professor's biased comments on Twitter....
September 6, 2024
Audio acquired by the National Association of Scholars describes allegations of coverup race-based hiring coverup at the University of Washington...
September 17, 2024
By the first day of class, Columbia University has managed to combine the blights of Chinese Communist influence, anti-Semitism, incompetent leadership, and intellectual disintegration....