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July 8, 2011

Higher Ed, or Building Clockwork Oranges?

David Clemens

For Father’s Day, my daughter Kate sent me a t-shirt featuring David Pelham’s dust jacket of Anthony Burgess’s novel A Clockwork Orange (Penguin, 1962).  Director Stanley Kubr......

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July 8, 2011

Collegiate Press Roundup

Glenn Ricketts

Student reporters weigh in on wimpy TV networks, the reasons for affirmative action's prolonged presence in college admissions, President Obama's unsatisfactory plans for Afghanistan and bei......

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July 7, 2011

Bottling Up Global Warming Skepticism

Peter Wood

Science Magazine reports that a computer scientist is going on the offensive against global warming skeptics.

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July 6, 2011

US History and Public Knowledge: Bad, Getting Worse

Glenn Ricketts

As I wrote recently here, knowledge of American history is increasingly unfamiliar to Americans at all levels of the educational process, from K-12 to graduates of top-tier colleges and universities......

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