September 13, 2011

Your Comfort is Our Priority

Ashley Thorne

Do students have the right to be comfortable?

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September 12, 2011

Acccountability, Texas Style

Glenn Ricketts

NAS Texas affiliate president Rob Koons assesses the University of Texas system's response to demands for greater public accountability and oversight. He's not impressed, and dismisses......

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September 12, 2011

FIRE Wins Another Case

George Leef

I wrote about the astonishing case of a professor at East Georgia College about two years ago; he was fired summarily for having had the temerity to criticize the school's sexual harassment poli......

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September 12, 2011

In Common Reading Assignments, Colleges Ignore the Best Books

Most books colleges assigned this year as "common reading" were recent, personal, race-focused, and unchallenging, finds the National Association of Scholars.

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September 12, 2011

Beach Books: 2011-2012

Ashley Thorne

A report on the books assigned in 2011–2012 as "common reading."

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September 9, 2011

More on William Byrd

Glenn Ricketts

A response to reader inquiries about the sixteenth-century English master.

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September 9, 2011

Collegiate Press Roundup

Glenn Ricketts

Student reporters and editorialists weigh in on unfair media jibes, complex relationships, disquieting historical parallels and suggestions for commencement speakers.

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September 8, 2011

Jefferson-Hemings Revisited

Peter Wood

Peter Wood reviews a new scholarly re-examination of the Thomas Jefferson-Sally Hemings controversy.

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September 8, 2011

Postmodern Philodoxers and Western Civilization

William H. Young

William Young examines the replacement of philosophy's pursuit of truth with philodoxy's denial of it.

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September 7, 2011

Fired: For Sexual Harassment? No, for Criticizing the Policy

Glenn Ricketts

A professor at East Georgia College was just legally vindicated after being terminated, NOT for sexual harassment itself, but for merely criticizing his school's proposed policy at a faculty mee......

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