Social Media Ideas for Academic Insanity

COLUMN: History tells us insanity has always been a part of college sports

Today, we are going to ask you to break out your laptops, or if your old school, your notepads and pens, because we are going to go into a short history lesson to try and make any...

Ya Gotta Read The Syllabus!!

One of the most frustrating aspects about the debate over the degree to which “Wokeness” (never defined) has taken over the Academy (or not) is that it relies almost exclusively on...

Insanity Defense

by Michael Ramirez at CDN - Click to read the rest HERE-> Insanity Defense first posted at Conservative Daily News

Irish interest in education is boarding on obsession

Classroom to College: Higher Options supplement is an essential guide for Leaving Cert students

California’s schools fail most kids year after year — the real definition of insanity

California’s school results continue to be a national disgrace. There is no reason for the wealthiest state in the country, and the center of the high-tech industry, to be among th...

Pareidolia

Ever since a psycho shot up a classroom last year and killed two students, the university has engaged in endless recrimination and self-flagellation. They promoted the chief of the...

College Is Coming Apart

Successive, overlapping crises reveal that American higher education makes no sense.

Survey of academic bureaucracy

Mal Graham writes: I read your blog and thought my small side project might be of interest. I’m aiming to transparently quantify academic bureaucracy, so universities can be better...

The Elite Mentality in One Clip

‘Direct Repression’ of Academics on the Rise, Report Finds

Academic Fabrication: Is the Case of Designer Science an Isolated One?

"There are tales readily believed by scholars, 'in order to live' — because the ideological campus discourse is beyond question." Source

Is It Madness or Something Else?

Many terms have been used to describe mental illness in the past. Here's why I prefer using the term "madness" when I teach my students mental health history.

The Shils Report and Academic Merit

Cambridge: Forget That Investigation Into Hiring Arday...

The No-Longer-Hallowed Halls of Academia: Princeton Joins Yale in Another Revealing 'Milestone'

Things Are Doubleplusgood at Yale

Lepore in the Chronicle: “Has Harvard Indeed Lost Its Mind?”

Jill Lepore (Harvard) has a new book, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State (2026). The Chronicle of Higher Education has a wide-ranging interview with Lepore on ideology, arti...

Lycée riots

KarenLot: And when I took Economics in first year at Uni, the auditorium for the class had 600 people in it. This isn’t that uncommon in certain subjects, which lend themselves...

Whac-a-Mole Revisited

Time to Break Up Academia

Starting the academic year with the right information

There is something exhilarating about the beginning of a new academic year. Campuses become busy again. Classrooms fill with familiar and unfamiliar faces, corridors echo with conv...

Reading the Rules for Rule Makers, Part 1

Reading the Rules for Rule Makers, Part 1 Sara Brady Fri, 09/04/2026 - 03:00 AM Conflating academic freedom with perceived viewpoint diversity: such a fu...

Academia Has Become East Germany II

Out Now: 2026 Survey of College and University Chief Academic Officers

Out Now: 2026 Survey of College and University Chief Academic Officers colleen.flaherty Wed, 09/23/2026 - 03:00 AM Byline(s)...