During his getting-acquainted tour of the Smithsonian, G. Wayne Clough, the institution’s new secretary, was stopped in his tracks by a group of researchers poring over pages of “endangered” languages. Clough sat there in...
When Barack Obama accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination before an exuberant crowd of 80,000 at Invesco Field last week, pundits were amazed: Look at all of these young people, gathered to watch a political...
The French have an education ministry; the English put their faculty in charge. In America, the Tenth Amendment is clear—education is not one of the powers delegated to the federal government. As a consequence,...
Ever since the American Association of University Professors and the Association of American Colleges issued the joint 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure, two truths have been deemed self-evident: that academic...
Despite the fact that they are side-by-side in the report of a survey about politics on Georgia’s campuses, the comments couldn’t be more different. The students are nameless, designated only by numbers. But those...
Our motto in New Hampshire, “Live Free or Die,” reminds Granite Staters that our freedoms are important to our way of life and are to be protected. The U.S. Senate has taken up reauthorization...
In his professorial attire and flowing, Zeus-like beard, Cary Nelson would look right at home behind a lectern, expounding on obscure poets. He even resembles one of the leading influences on his scholarship—Karl Marx....
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