September 3, 2019
Bonevac documents the disappearance of Western Civilization and other broad interdisciplinary humanities courses, along with the dwindling of traditional survey courses. The result is that college gra......
September 3, 2019
The American culture of grade inflation is a primary abettor of the “pay to play” college admissions scandals recently in the news. If a student can manage to gain admission to a school th......
September 3, 2019
It is possible that athletic competition could provide a sound accompaniment to a rigorous liberal arts education. As it’s practiced on today’s college campuses, though, institutional stat......
September 3, 2019
Peter discusses twenty-one new books for your attention, and has a few you should avoid.
September 3, 2019
Reading, according to Karen Prior, forms one’s character, cultivates virtues such as patience, attentiveness, diligence, and humility, and leads to greater academic and professional success. Why......
September 3, 2019
The campus left’s rejection of the Western canon and its focus on racial, gender, and sexual inequality is couched in the language of Enlightenment: "tolerance," "fairness," R......
September 3, 2019
In the final entry of our “Incapacity” feature, Stephen Hicks argues that supporters of liberal education must wrest control of our schools back from postmodernists who, in their rejection......
September 3, 2019
What has caused the fear, intolerance, and aggression of the many college students who demand strict enforcement of speech codes? Howard Schwartz argues that they are the children of a culture that ha......
September 3, 2019
A review of two recent books on school reform by James V. Shuls provokes a heated exchange between two prominent scholars over a proposal to significantly widen the federal role in K-12 education.
September 3, 2019
The rise of the administrative university, the demise of faculty governance, rising tuition, online courses, and reliance on part-time faculty is enough to make one pine for a return to a “repub......
September 3, 2019
The publication of a fraudulent study of the effect of microplastics on fish illustrates how preferred political narratives can warp basic scientific protocol at even the most prestigious scientific j......
September 3, 2019
The political imbalance on most college faculties is often attributed to “self-selection,” the aggregation of left-leaning cognitive high-performers voluntarily choosing to pursue academic......
September 3, 2019
A review of Arthur Brooks' new book, Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt.
September 3, 2019
A modern college love story with a flare of kangaroo courts and Title IX.
September 3, 2019
A new multi-part television dramatization of William Makepeace Thackeray’s nineteenth-century novel Vanity Fair distributed by Britain’s ITV network in 2018 set Carol to reviewin......
September 3, 2019
Is shifting university resources toward what the customers (students) demand supporting the purpose of the university?
September 9, 2019
A personal reflection contrasting an education at Grove City with that of Yale.
