From The Washington Monthly, an introduction to A Different Kind of College Ranking; America's Best Community Colleges: Why they're better than some of the "best" four-year universities; Built to Teach: What your alma mater could learn from Cascadia Community College; Inside the Higher Ed Lobby: Welcome to One Dupont Circle, where good education-reform ideas go to die; and this year's national university and liberal arts college and community college rankings. Thousands of students are wasting their own and taxpayers' money on "Mickey Mouse" higher education courses.
He Didn’t Worship the Market: When Colorado Christian University notified Andrew Paquin, an assistant professor of global studies, that his contract would not be renewed, he knew that not being sufficiently guided by Christ wasn’t the problem. But it might have been that he wasn’t sufficiently capitalist. Why study war? Victor Davis Hanson on how military history teaches us about honor, sacrifice, and the inevitability of conflict. Guantanamo in Germany: In the name of the war on terror, our colleagues are being persecuted - for the crime of sociology. Higher education doesn't secularize students: An interview with Mark Regnerus, author of Forbidden Fruit: Sex & Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers. A review of The Battle Over School Prayer: How Engel v. Vitale Changed America by Bruce J. Dierenfield. A review of Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy by Richard D. Kahlenberg.
From CT, a review of Benjamin Franklin's Printing Network: Disseminating Virtue in Early America by Ralph Frasca; a review of The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate; and a review of From Nature to Experience: The American Search for Cultural Authority by Roger Lundin. A review of The House the Rockefellers Built: A Tale of Money, Taste, and Power in Twentieth-Century America by Robert F. Dalzell and Lee Baldwin Dalzell (and more). A review of Young J. Edgar: Hoover, the Red Scare, and the Assault on Civil Liberties by Kenneth D. Ackerman. From TLS, Anthony Holden reviews Conrad Black's Richard Milhous Nixon: The invincible quest.
