Veterans For Academic Freedom

By Jay Richards Tuesday, March 16, 2010 Anyone who has studied the history of science knows that scientists are not immune to the non-rational dynamics of the herd. A December 18 Washington Post poll, released on the final day of the ill-fated Copenhagen climate summit, reported “four in ten Americans now saying that they place...

by Leonard Magruder For years Nebraska has been one of the top teams in college football. So it is no surprise when Nebraska Assistant Coach Ron Brown was recruited by Stanford Univ. in California to be interviewed for the head coach position. He didn’t get very far. He was not discriminated against because he is...

I recently came across a very poignant post on Art by “Faust.” It is stunning to compare the differences in what historically was passed as art, and what passes as “art” today.  What is most important is the cultural shift in the value statement of what art is supposed to be. Artwork as a form of imitation can...

Share Harvard’s Warriors Honoring the Medal of Honor recipients. BY Jules Crittenden November 23, 2009, Vol. 15, No. 10 Cambridge, Mass. It was like a fleeting glimpse of an alternative world: the greatness of the past and what might be in the future, brought together for a moment at Harvard University last week. It was...

My high school history teacher used to say: “You think I am conservative; I am really an old-fashioned liberal.” We thought he was just making a joke, but the fact is, he was right on target. This article was written in 1955…before most of you ever had a chance to be liberal. Liberalism By Milton...

College faculties, long assumed to be a liberal bastion, lean further to the left than even the most conspiratorial conservatives might have imagined, a new study says. Noam Chomsky By their own description, 72 percent of those teaching at American universities and colleges are liberal and 15 percent are conservative, says the study being published...

Since the sixties, Noam Chomsky has been calling the United States an imperialist nation and continues to do so, now saying U.S. actions in Iraq and Afghanistan are imperialist. The purpose of Mr. Chomsky’s’ philosophy is to destroy the legitimacy of any and all acts of force by an ethical, lawful state. In essence, Mr....

The Anti-military Bias On Campus November 23, 2005 By Jerry Coffee Historically, college campuses have been the lightening rod for anti-military sentiment and violence. This has ranged from peaceful candlelight vigils to the occupation of administrative buildings, from the torching of ROTC facilities to the tragic deaths of students at Kent State during the Vietnam...

Amicus Harvard Law School Professors In Support of FAIR, in Rumsfeld v. FAIR source: http://www.acslaw.org/node/8623 By Harold Eugene Oliver III, George Washington University Law School Amici of various Harvard Law School Professors put forth the following arguments in support of FAIR: (1) The Solomon Amendment bars only anti-military policies; it does not give military recruiters...

By James Kirchick Published Wednesday, October 15, 2003 Source: http://www.yaledailynews.com/opinion/staff-columns/2003/10/15/anti-jag-policy-quashes-law-students-free-speech-r/ On Monday, the Yale Daily News reported that nearly half of the Yale Law School’s professors plan to sue the Department of Defense over its campus recruiting policies. In their haste, they ought to heed the words of of the free speech champion, and former...