Studies about the leftward tilt in academia, such as the recent one Josh noted below, are nothing new. Conservatives often try to make this case (the Hoosier Review made modest efforts twice at Indiana University, here and here), but it doesn’t seem that anyone much cares besides conservatives. The...

I’ve been listening to the Citizen Journalist Report, a new radio show hosted by bloggers Bill Ardolino and Jeff Goldstein. It’s hilarious, smart, and creative. They’re hosted by RightTalk Radio, which is a bit of a public access network.

In his written decision yesterday to deny a rehearing for Terri Schiavo’s parents, federal judge Stanley F. Birch Jr. of the 11th Circuit Court of appeals “went out of his way to castigate Bush and congressional Republicans for acting ‘in a manner demonstrably at odds with our Founding...

The White House meekly links to a WMD Commission report on its front page today without much fanfare. That’s probably because the “scathing report” says the spy agencies were “dead wrong” in most WMD judgments and that we know “disturbingly little” about threats...

ITA friend and neighbor Brad DeLong has teamed up with Paul Krugman and Dean Baker to present a paper today to the Brookings Institution on some failings of Social Security reform. About midway through this article in the NY Times Edmund Andrews reports on the presentation. It appears to be a more academic...

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment project hit the news yesterday with a lot of fanfare. Scores of media outlets featured the report on the front pages and plenty of blogs got in on the act as well. It reports that up to 60 percent of the world’s ecosystems are crumbling and much of it may be...

The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz has taken up the memogate affair in an article titled “Doubts Raised On Schaivo Memo.” Power Line rips into it and leaves tattering shreds behind. Michelle Malkin and Ed Morrissey weigh in as well. John Hinderaker’s Weekly Standard piece still...

So, should the Church of England bless Prince Charles’s marriage? Some say no. I, however, find it remarkable that the Church of England is considered a font of moral teaching on the matter of royal divorce, adultery, and remarriage. (Aside from the most obvious precedent, where was the Archbishop...

Ezra Klein takes a swipe at this site for a recent post that pondered, again, why university professors are so uniformly leftist or liberal. Writes Klein: So in places where intelligent, informed people work, many of them turn out to be liberal. At the places the most intelligent and informed people...

Ezra Klein responds to my post linking to a study on college faculty and their alleged liberal bias. Klein argues that “as you climb up the rungs of academia, where internal coherency and intellectual rigor become values to live and die by, you find fewer Republicans.” In other words, according...