Among the many idiocies of the academic Left is the “grammar is dead” movement. Grammar, it has claimed, is chauvinistic and “hegemonic.” Some academics are overtly hostile to what seems to be a fledgling movement to reinstate the teaching of grammar. No surprise, then, as retired professor Nan Martin observes, that “[r]ecent analyses indicate that more than 50 percent of first-year college students are unable to produce papers that are relatively free of language errors.” Nonetheless, she points out, “The new English 101 continues the public school trend to go easy on grammar gaffes….”