At The Chronicle of Higher Education, “journalistic standards” are of the double kind. And incivility is a firing offense — unless you’re criticizing a conservative, in which case nasty smears are all the rage

Sir, Edward Luce's description of the competing views in the US about both the financial crisis and a supposed "crisis of capitalism" was a caricature, particularly his discussion of the view he ascribed to the Republicans ("America's three views on the crisis", March 19).

Should she be confirmed, Judge Sonia Sotomayor may not prove an effective advocate for her liberal views on the Supreme Court.

Ground experience in Iraq is substantially changing the political debate over the Iraq war. In the U.S. presidential race, Senator John McCain, who made his eighth trip to Iraq in March 2008, states that his frequent travel there grants legitimacy to his support of a continued American presence. Following his...

The numerous and spirited ways in which Chinese people are objecting--despite repression, risk, and sometimes their own involvement in the problems--show that popular ideas about social morality are still alive and well in China.

It's comfortable living in a cocoon -- associating only with those who share your views, reading journalism and watching news that only reinforce them, avoiding those on the other side of the cultural divide.

Liberals have been doing this for a long time. In 1972 the movie critic Pauline Kael said...

The Stalin archives, collections of the Soviet dictator’s personal papers and library, recently opened to Yale University Press, provide new insight into the psyche of the man who orchestrated some of the most terrible events of the twentieth century—and whose legacy is being rehabilitated today in Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

Stalin...