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 feeling.
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 knowledge, h......
September 30, 2020
Rodney Stark’s remarkable 2014 study, How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity (2014), can help restore an appreciation for the achievements of Western civilization, and......
September 30, 2020
An evaluation of the most widely used textbook in art history maps the slow but steady erosion of imagery in art—and the loss of meaning, purpose, and understanding that representative art in th......
September 30, 2020
It is one thing when critics insist that racial identity is socially constructed and therefore acquired or discarded as one chooses. But it is quite another when they read black characters and racial......
September 30, 2020
It might be true, as Irving Kristol once noted, that the culture war is over and conservatives lost. But there is always a saving remnant. “Despair is a sin.”
September 30, 2020
Given the speed with which authorities have acted to accommodate even acts of vandalism, it is surprising that so many protesters haven’t sought to achieve their ends democratically.
September 30, 2020
Identity theory insists that human beings experience the world as members of the identity group to which they belong. This idea is a “revolt against the concept of poetry,” which seeks to......
September 30, 2020
As higher education moves more of its courses online in response to a global pandemic, it will become obvious that actual course content is not what students, parents, and employers are seeking from c......
September 25, 2020
A model much in need in our times, Freeman Dyson challenged received opinion, “but his criticism was always designed to increase the range of thought, rather than reduce it to orthodoxy.”
September 30, 2020
Anti-liberal and often violent radicals from the 1960s have risen to heights of significant power and influence in our universities, positions from which they seek to impose their idea of a Marxist ut......
September 30, 2020
Two recent books using different methods attempt to address the question most asked by those flummoxed at the illiberal takeover of intellectual life: how did this happen?
September 30, 2020
A review of The Transformation of Title IX: Regulating Gender Equality in Education, R. Shep Melnick, Brookings Institution Press, 2018, 326 pp., $35.99 paper.
September 30, 2020
A review of The Ideal of Culture: Essays, Joseph Epstein, Axios, 2018, pp. 572, $17.49 hardcover.
September 30, 2020
A review of The Affirmative Action Puzzle: A Living History from Reconstruction to Today, Melvin I. Urofsky, Pantheon, 2020, pp. 592, $22.68 hardcover.
September 30, 2020
A review of The Breakdown of Higher Education: How It Happened, the Damage It Does, and What Can Be Done, John M. Ellis, Encounter, 2020, pp. 210, $21.72 hardcover.
September 30, 2020
A review of The Conversational Enlightenment: the Reconception of Rhetoric in 18th Century Thought, David Randall, Edinburgh University Press, 2019, 297 pp., $29.95 paperback.
September 30, 2020
A review of Campus Diversity: The Hidden Consensus, John M. Carey, Katherine Clayton, Yusaku Horiuchi, Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp. 274, $29.93 hardcover.
September 30, 2020
A review of The Age of Entitlement: America Since the 1960s, Christopher Caldwell, Simon and Schuster, 2020, pp. 352, $17.39 hardcover.
September 30, 2020
A review of The First: How to Think About Hate Speech, Campus Speech, Religious Speech, Fake News, Post-Truth, and Donald Trump, Stanley Fish, Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2019, pp. 228, $20.99 hardco......
September 30, 2020
"How have we lost our courage, O my Muse! / The daily headlines surely must confuse / The reader who’s aware of how men acted / In history when not by fear distracted."
September 30, 2020
"But perhaps if we can use the time to climb / The peaks of loneliness the view will clear / And style can yield a little fruit."
September 25, 2020
"The mayor tells us we have to go away / the bailout comes tomorrow, not today / unless we’re rich enough to pay to play / and then the government will find a way"
