November 6, 2009
A sustainability conference at CSU-Chico prompts a concerned letter. NAS spots some good reasons for concern.
November 6, 2009
Teachers-in-training should learn something before they begin teaching. But they should not learn just anything.
November 6, 2009
After NAS posted Academic Questions article "Remapping Geography," Don Mitchell offered a response to the authors, Jonathan M. Smith and Jim Norwine. Here Professor Smith responds to Mitchell.
November 5, 2009
Check out the NAS articles from this week so far! Remapping Geography, Jonathan M. Smith and Jim Norwine, Nov. 2 On the state of academic geography today, from a forthcoming issue of Academic Q......
November 5, 2009
This article, originally posted at MindingtheCampus.com, is a response, added to those of others, to University of Chicago president Robert Zimmer's recent speech on academic freedom.
November 5, 2009
Dr. Don Mitchell, author of Cultural Geography: A Critical Introduction who was mentioned in Professors Smith and Norwine's Academic Questions article "Remapping Geography," offers a response to......
November 4, 2009
A charming blog on our blogroll, Quiddity - created by the Center for Independent Research on Classical Education (CiRCE) - has an excellent post on the beauty of formally-taught grammar.......
November 4, 2009
Thomas Thibeault, a professor of English at East Georgia College, was escorted from campus by police and suspended from teaching two days after he criticized the school's sexual harassment polic......
November 4, 2009
During the recent election season I met two Republicans who told me about instances of Ulster County, NY public school teachers' using schools to ideologically brainwash children. In......
November 4, 2009
This article by John B. Parrott on the ideas and contemporary influence of Berkeley professor George Lakoff appeared in the "Academic Revisionism" issue of Academic Questions (vol. 22, no. 4).
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....