The response of a leading Pharmascold to a recent academic talk provides a textbook example of how academic orthodoxy is enforced.

During the recent democratic revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine, the local branches of the Orthodox Church acted in full concordance with liberal democratic values, supporting the desire of people in these countries for political freedoms. However, they were resisted at every turn by the nationalistic Russian Orthodox Church, which is tightly tied to a Russian state that is still trying to reassert control over its former dominions.

While his Climate Fix sounds like yet another exercise in magical thinking, Pielke unloads one heresy after another.

Obama's shifting views on school vouchers won't score points with anyone other than the NEA and AFT. His strategy aims to woo the teachers unions as 2012 approaches.

The examples of rigidly enforced conformity could fill several volumes, and no amount of criticism from outside the environmental citadel is likely to break though the walls. So, is there any chance that reform will come from within?

What do the endlessly repeating cycle of futile Eurozone rescue talks and the endlessly repeating cycle of futile annual UN climate summits have in common? Put more plainly, what accounts for the unreality of both efforts, such that "breakthrough" agreements are soon recognized to be ineffective, if not fraudulent?

The FDA's efforts to resolve scientific differences and to take final actions are causing it to miss review goals that it commits to as part of the PDUFA.

Political reporters always like to anoint one candidate as the front-runner. But there hasn't been a real front-runner in the Republican race so far.