December 8, 2009

Winter's Not So Happy Without Holidays

Ashley Thorne

From the student newspaper of the University of Massachusetts is an article by Thomas Moore (the student, not the Utopian) about the new policy for U Mass RAs: Don't call it the "holiday season"......

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December 8, 2009

Iranian Students: Beaten, Bloody, But Unbowed

Candace de Russy

AOL provides vivid and heartrending coverage of this week's vicious government suppression of the protest of tens of thousands of courageous students. We can but applaud and echo the f......

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December 8, 2009

Supreme Court to Decide Christian Legal Society v. Martinez

Ashley Thorne

The case aims to settle a longstanding controversy: whether a religious student group, recognized or funded by a public university, has the right to specify that its members must share the group&rsq......

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December 7, 2009

Collegiality or Harrassment? Two Sides of the PC Coin

Mitchell Langbert

At a northeastern college the chair of a department also chaired  a tenure and promotion committee that made a negative decision on an  untenured associate professor.  The associate pro......

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December 7, 2009

Handy

Candace de Russy

Fast facts about Climategate, from Charlie Martin.

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December 7, 2009

Popper on Plato, Social Justice and Political Correctness

Mitchell Langbert

I have been reading Karl Popper's Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume I and am awestruck with Popper's scholarship and its relevance to currently percolating issues such as social justice edu......

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December 7, 2009

Squeezing the Grapefruit

Ashley Thorne

NAS president Peter Wood’s book review of Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White's The Elements of Style, is linked on Arts and Letters Daily.

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December 4, 2009

How Climategate Went Global

Candace de Russy

In admirable contrast with the U.S. MSM -- which to its great shame has barely (if at all) covered the momentous climate-change, leaked e-mails scandal --  the Sunday T......

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December 4, 2009

Yes Minister and Foreign Students

Ashley Thorne

Carol Iannone, the Editor-at-Large of our journal Academic Questions, writes in: Recently I just happened upon the DVDs of Yes, Minister, an absolutely superb British comedy series from the 1980s......

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December 3, 2009

Do Atheists Need Chaplains Too?

Ashley Thorne

A humanist student group called the Tufts Freethought Society asks for a spiritual guide.

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