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...conservative made a mistake not in arguing that students should take a course in ancient Greece, read Plato, or learn a foreign language. These are suggestions so obviously beneficial as to be immune from all but the most unhinged rants. Where Brooks stumbled is somewhere a large chunk of academia also seems to be stumbling: study abroad. The idea of “study abroad” is similar to those tired suggestions of “interdisciplinary” courses or courses in the “sciences” that are often bandied about as a panacea...
...with advertising. The office is getting known as an easy grader, awarding patents too leniently, to such things as basic medical tests and "business methods" like one-click online shopping. That stifles innovation and blocks new products from the market, according to some experts. "There's a consensus in academia and the legal world that the patent system is seriously out of balance and needs reform," says economist Carl Shapiro of Berkeley's Haas School of Business...
...enforcement, then we can have a debate about whether we legalize some of the people here or not. The public is already in favor of immigration enforcement. It's an lite commitment that's lacking. It's the business lite, Big Labor, Big Religion, Big Media, Big Academia, who are hostile to the very concept of immigration enforcement...
Chaos once again broke out in the realm of academia last month after Science, a leading scientific journal, refused to publish an article that dismissed the theory of psychological equivalence between men and women. Peter A. Lawrence, a biologist and fellow of the Royal Society, authored the controversial article, arguing the hardly astonishing point that “men and women are born different.” Big mistake...
...authors also criticized the foreign aid and the reflexive support that the U.S. Congress and the Bush administration give to Israel. They also devoted a section each to what they claimed was the disproportionate influence of the lobby on the media, think tanks, and academia, and wrote that the lobby demonizes Palestinians and comprised the “critical element” in launching the war in Iraq...