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.
March 18, 2022
Political scientist and NAS board member Bruce Gilley’s article “The Case for Colonialism” (republished in Academic Questions in the summer of 2018), has been the subject o......
July 22, 2022
Three public philosophies have been predominant in the modern world. All three have advantages and disadvantages, but only one ensures the objective study of science and humanity....
March 18, 2022
Anthropologist Glynn Custred provides the context for the arrival of two books by big-name conservatives exploring the history of leftist politics in the United States....
May 30, 2018
From the summer issue of Academic Questions, we reprint the controversial article, "The Case for Colonialism." ...
July 2, 2020
The idea that there are more than two sexes in human beings is a rejection of everything biological science has taught us. Unbelievably, this idea is coming directly from within the highest......
March 29, 2019
A study on the partisanship of liberal arts professors at America's top universities. ...
