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 graduates emerge with little knowledge of subjects beyond their majors, and only narrow slices of that to boot.
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 status-striving through the provision of mass entertainment sports has resulted in disastrous academic compromise. Recent scandals involving college athletics programs provide an opportunity for real reform.
May 30, 2018
From the summer issue of Academic Questions, we reprint the controversial article, "The Case for Colonialism." ...
September 30, 2020
Much like the devotional paintings hanging in our finest museums, the Gothic architecture that adorns American college campuses fails to elicit from visitors even the slightest religious fee...
May 30, 2018
From the summer issue of Academic Questions, we reprint the controversial article, "The Case for Colonialism." ...
March 29, 2019
A study on the partisanship of liberal arts professors at America's top universities. ...
September 30, 2020
Decolonizing the curriculum is more than just replacing John Stuart Mill with Ta-Nehisi Coates in required reading lists. It’s about advancing a revolution in what we consider to be kn...
