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  • Action Civics Is Teaching Our Kids to Protest

    Action Civics Is Teaching Our Kids to Protest0

    Many young Americans seem to have a growing disdain for our country. According to a Gallup poll, pride in our nation has declined, especially among young adults. Young adults are taking to the streets and not merely protesting but wreaking havoc, rioting and looting, tearing down statues, and shutting down anyone who doesn’t share their

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  • ACT: College Kids Can’t Discern Between Fact & Opinion

    ACT: College Kids Can’t Discern Between Fact & Opinion0

    By this point in the year, most high school seniors have walked across the stage and grabbed their diploma. Many parents sit proudly by during this process, sniffing back tears and saying, “I can’t believe they’re ready to move on to college!” The unfortunate fact of the matter is, they may not be as ready

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  • Academics Claim Their Non-PC Transgender Research is Being Censored

    Academics Claim Their Non-PC Transgender Research is Being Censored0

    Academic publishing is being viewed with increasing skepticism the last several years. This skepticism, of course, is not helped with academic papers about the whiteness of pumpkins, oppressed squirrels, and dog rape, the latter being a hoax to prove that academic publishing has indeed gone off the deep end. If such unique, rather irrelevant topics

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  • Academics are Horribly Unprofessional… Here’s Why

    Academics are Horribly Unprofessional… Here’s Why0

    In a recent article for The Chronicle of Higher Education Rob Jenkins asks, “Why Are Some Academics So Unprofessional?”. One might well ask the same about any other profession, of course; doubtless many of you could give examples. But it does seem worse in academia, and that suggests a lesson both important and easily absorbed.

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  • Academic Writing is Becoming a Caricature of Itself

    Academic Writing is Becoming a Caricature of Itself0

    Much of modern postsecondary intellectual discourse emblematizes a regressive displacement of phraseology toward loquacious amalgamations intended to subvert intelligibility. Which is academic-speak for “Most academic writing these days is crap.” We’ve written on this subject before. In no other time in history have so many professors written so much that is unintelligible to the public,

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  • Academic Research is in Danger of Becoming a Joke

    Academic Research is in Danger of Becoming a Joke0

    What do a gay man expressing his voyeuristic fantasies about intercourse with Dominican sex workers, Pumpkin Spiced Lattés demonstrating inherent White Supremacy, a doctoral thesis on ethical implications of ghosts and scary stories on the internet, and the need for a Feminist epistemology of glaciers have in common? They’re all the topics of academic papers

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