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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September 7, 2011

Attack of the Administrator Zombies!

George Leef

Professor Robert Weissberg reviews The Fall of the Faculty, adding agonizing details to the author’s tale of woe. Both find that our rampant administrative bloat not only wastes great amounts of......

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September 7, 2011

Cost Versus Enrollment Bubbles

Andrew Gillen

We should carefully consider why Americans

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September 6, 2011

The Global Warming Debate on Campus

George Leef

The trouble is, on most college campuses, there is no debate. Students hear over and over that it is "settled" and thus anyone who doubts that humans are responsible for potentially disastrous clima......

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