August, 2007 Entries

August 31

    • A Correction
    • MAS (and ISNA's) Wahabbi Connection
    • Walt and Mearsheimer: Surface Clean-Up
    • Union Myths
    • Indispensable Counter-Terrorism Site
    • Va. Tech Update
    • Dog Fighting and Faulty Reasoning
    • California to Proceed with Unnecessary New Law School
    • Why Must Everything be about Racism?
    • Two-Front War

August 30

    • ‘Humanizing’ Company Wares
    • Saudi Extremist in Iraq Linked to Wahhabi Clerics
    • Khalil's Hateful Website
    • ’Welcome to One Dupont Circle, where good education-reform ideas go to die’
    • Duke Lacrosse Case Continues
    • Free Speech Troubles Continue at Columbia
    • Re: Getting "Othered"
    • More on Military Historians
    • Uninformed

August 29

    • Hanson on the Academic Study of War
    • I Just Got 'Othered'
    • What Goes On in Education Schools?
    • Washington Monthly Article on One Dupont Circle
    • Woe Are Us!
    • Allan Bloom Essay Contest
    • A College Writing Program that Works
    • Buckeye Pride
    • Old Gods Ever With Us
    • Another Downer on the Literacy Front
    • Not the Norm
    • A Data Recap
    • Untenured Radical
    • Testy

August 28

    • VDH on Knowledge-Rich Schooling
    • ‘Koran Canned’
    • This Just In
    • Sander Bagged 2

August 27

    • The West’s ‘Golden Threads’
    • Haleh Esfandiari Released on Bail: Stranded in Iran Without Passport, Cannot Leave
    • Prestigious UK Academics Say No To Boycott
    • Burlesque Studies
    • The Future Value of College Degrees
    • Finkelstein Watch

August 26

    • Free at Last

August 25

    • On the Question of Moderation
    • Unintentionally Encouraging Article

August 24

    • Seeing through Fads?
    • Re: 'Traversing Sex and Gender..'
    • ‘Moderate’ Islamic Reformers?
    • Taheri-Azar trial date set
    • Home-Grown Terror Threat in Scotland
    • Travis, You Made My Day
    • 'Traversing Sex and Gender in the Middle Ages'
    • Re: Sander Bagged
    • Who Needs Research (When You Know What the Answer Should Be)?
    • Dems Win Either Way
    • Can There be a Public Hebrew School?
    • Almstaking
    • Fantasy Footnotes
    • Sander Bagged

August 23

    • Of Male Malefaction
    • 'Humble Admissions'
    • Enough Reading
    • Extracurricular

August 22

    • Crimson Tide of Editors
    • Turning to Aquinas for Coherence
    • Ideologue Writ Large
    • 'From Christian Gentleman to Bewildered Seeker'
    • About 'Editors'
    • Giving Away Honors and Titles
    • Fire! Fire!

August 21

    • Harvard Endowment Posts 23% Gain
    • Students on Booze, etc.
    • Kindred Spirits: Clinton, Toohey and Alinsky
    • ‘Soup Kitchen-ology’
    • Conventional Wisdom's Vicious Defenders
    • A Journalism School's Identity Crisis

August 20

    • More Evidence That Higher Education Has Been Oversold
    • Not Equivalent
    • See-No-Evils Scandals
    • Live Free or . . . Need a Massage?
    • Why Is Columbia Cowering?
    • IU in DC
    • Muddle East Studies
    • Pain in the...
    • Something's in the Air

August 19

    • Wren Cross Watch
    • Kristol Clear
    • Clean Feet

August 17

    • "Public Sociology" = Liberal Activism
    • Stanley Fish, That Inputs Guy
    • More From Arizona State
    • Important Name Change
    • Budding Military-Academic Symbiosis
    • Karl Rove and Diversity
    • Assimilation Not Happening, So Stop Pretending

August 16

    • Sunlight Disinfecting Hiring
    • Shaky ‘Science of the Sophomore’
    • Academe Shells out for Democrats
    • Yale Does the Right Thing
    • Could It Be That Diversity Is Overrated?

August 15

    • Socket Wrenches in the Book Bag?
    • How Much Good Should We Expect from Accreditation?
    • 'F' For University Presidents For Not Weighing in on Israeli Boycott
    • Sooo 'Complicated'
    • I'm Offended Too
    • Can A College Survive without Government Funding?
    • Translating Shakespeare Into English

August 14

    • Contact with People Who Have "Offensive" Views
    • More on College Sports and "Academic Standards"
    • Academic Human-Subjects Research
    • Med Journals Killing Medicine
    • Hilarious Spoof
    • Contact with People with "Offensive" Views
    • More on College Sports and “Academic Standards”
    • Med Journals Killing Medicine
    • Hilarious Spoof

August 13

    • Just When You'd Least Expect It...
    • Fewer Test Scores
    • Beating Up on a Straw Man
    • Search Tied to USF Students
    •  All the Good Jobs Will Require a College Degree--Right?
    • Khomeinist Paranoia of Furry Proportions

August 10

    • NY Madrassa and Principal Bound at the Hip
    • Pumping Money Into Politics
    • Re: Sports and Higher Ed

August 09

    • Reform the Reforms
    • Of Concerts and 'Conscience'
    • “The Self Esteem Myth”
    • University Presidents Condemn UCU Boycott
    • Diversity Decisions
    • College Presidents Against 'British Bullies'
    • Fjordman on 'Whiteness' in the West
    • Financial Transparency

August 08

    • Arab Student Calls for Firing
    • Speaking of Transparency
    • Big Time College Sports and Our Idea of Higher Education
    • More Financial Transparency in College Reports

August 07

    • "An easy form of academic pandering"
    • Even More on Foot Baths
    • AP African-American History?
    • A Call for Terror-Free University Investment
    • The P.C. Side of the Pace Koran Case
    • Re: Campus Culture Wars
    • Footbaths, Cont'd

August 06

    • Has the Campus Culture War Even Started?
    • K-College Indoctrination about Middle Eastern Culture
    • Good Expectations
    • Athletics vs. Admissions
    • Office of [Fill in the Blank] Affairs
    • Libertarians to Conservatives: Drop Dead
    • Am I A Journalism or Marketing Major?
    • Sin of Omission?
    • Loss of Mediating Authorities

August 03

    • Campus Regulations and Hate Crimes
    • UNLV's Writing Program Gets Publicity
    • Gone Fishing
    • Rescuing Iraq's Scholars
    • Report on JHU in China

August 02

    • Ban 'Terrorist-Enabling" Muslim Women's Wear
    • Excellent Essay on the Demise of Ward Churchill
    • Saudis Suppressing Study of Terrorism-Financing?
    • Transcending 'Toilet Bowl Protest'

August 01

    • A Columbia/Barnard 'Dirty Deal'?
    • Dumbing Down the Syllabus
    • From the Mouths of Vipers
    • In Memoriam Norma Gabler 1923-2007
    • Indoctrinate U Deleted Scenes
    • My Comment on the Ward Churchill Case
    • First Pass, then Remediation

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