April 27, 2009
This article, a review of the book Closed Minds? Politics and Ideology in American Universities, appeared in the spring 2009 issue of Academic Questions (volume 22, number 2).
April 27, 2009
The following essay is a "Report from the Academy" which was published in Academic Questions (volume 22, number 2).
April 26, 2009
Two weeks after Virginia Tech announced it was dropping its diversity litmus test for faculty members, an ambitious dean plots to bring it back.
April 24, 2009
Madonna Constantine, the formerly tenured professor who was fired last year for plagiarism, is now filing a lawsuit against Columbia Teachers College. Her claim mentions an NAS article, "The Copyist a......
April 23, 2009
A letter from President Bob Kerrey to the New School community evades the real problems behind the student protests.
April 22, 2009
Kids fear a looming eco-apocalypse and learn in school, "every day is Earth Day."
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......
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......
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....
October 12, 2010
What does it mean to be Latino? Are only Latin American people Latino, or does the term apply to anyone whose language derived from Latin?...
May 28, 2009
A philosophy professor finds an Internet legend subbing for the Gospel truth and looks in vain for "critical reasoning."...
