He can sometimes stumble into the correct position when trying to appease a constituency, as is the case with his approach to political speech by nonprofit groups, argues John K. Wilson.
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December 16, 2016
Dennis Jett casts a satirical eye on Professor Watchlist.
August 5, 2011
Public criticism of higher education continues to gather momentum; the primary issues are cost, quality and political bias. The objective evidence regarding high and rising cost is compelling and the body of evidence suggesting a secular decline in quality is also growing.
July 19, 2011
Peter Boghossian explains why he sought to disabuse a student of her Creationist views -- and why professors must challenge assumptions with facts.
August 18, 2010
New sociology research suggests that nonpolitical campus characteristics may influence whether conservative students thrive with or feel intimidated by faculty at overwhelmingly liberal institutions.
February 10, 2010
Obama's critics have again taken to deriding his professorial past, shedding light on longstanding stereotypes about academe.
September 4, 2009
Special panel considers ways that the field may be out of step with demographics. Solutions being weighed could challenge the role of research, research universities, and dominance of mathematical methodologies.
August 12, 2009
Sociologists find that evangelicals who are college graduates or are exposed to them are more likely than others to have more tolerance of atheists and gay people.
April 20, 2009
Board of College of DuPage, over faculty objections, adopts version of "Academic Bill of Rights" as official policy.
February 25, 2009
When David Horowitz named the "101 most dangerous academics in America," in The Professors, a book in 2006, Bettina Aptheker was among those featured. A professor of feminist studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz, Aptheker was critiqued this way in the book: