Day: December 18, 2012

Howard Zinn in the College Classroom

The left cannot get enough of the late Howard Zinn. The radical professor’s A People’s History of the United States consistently holds a place in the top 15 of the 100 bestselling political books on Amazon‘s “blue,” liberal side.  The million mark in sales has long been passed, an outstanding figure for a work of […]

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PC Professor Under Fire

I’ve written previously about the controversy regarding CUNY’s Pathways plan, the common-sense proposal of the administration to set a common general education curriculum at all CUNY campuses–so as to ensure minimum standards, and to allow students to easily transfer from one campus to any other. The proposal has generated strong opposition. Some has come in […]

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