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My interest was piqued recently when I encountered at Townhall.com the title of Kurt Schlicter’s article: “Let’s Help Academia Destroy Itself.”  The author, a self-described conservative, levels a visceral assault against the university.   Schlicter offers an essentially two prong attack against academia.  The first we can call “the tick argument.”  Academia, he says, is…

Yesterday, while on Fox News Sunday, Mitt Romney ascribed his defeat in November to his campaign’s failure to take “our message to minorities, to Hispanic-Americans, African-Americans.” Doubtless, this is the conventional wisdom among Republicans. As I write this, I am listening to Bill Bennett’s morning talk show.  The host is speaking with City Journal’s Heather…

The president of Emory University, James W. Wagner, has been censured by faculty members.  He may even be forced to resign.    In his school’s magazine, Wagner, you see, cited “the three-fifths compromise over slavery” as illustrative of the art of political comprise.    In response to the backlash, Wagner issued the obligatory mea culpa…
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