December 27, 2021
In the editor's introduction to this issue, Carol Iannone grapples with the weight of coercive government actions and the erosion of basic freedoms once taken as birthright. The articles in this i......
December 27, 2021
National Association of Scholars Board Chairman Keith Whitaker introduces David Bolotin’s provocative remarks at a St. John’s College presentation.
December 27, 2021
Political correctness, with its power to enforce consequences on those who challenge its orthodoxies, has suppressed the reasoned examination of society’s deepest moral convictions.
December 27, 2021
Prosperity has played a large role in the sharply divergent fortunes of both liberal education and political radicalism.
December 27, 2021
While “wokeness” attracts students starved for purpose and meaning, it fails to produce people whose excellent personal qualities are self-evident. Liberal education does just that.
December 27, 2021
Social justice ideology has redefined the meaning of “equality” and “freedom,” devastating the study of humanities. The answer? Return, without shame, to the reading of Great B......
December 27, 2021
David Bolotin’s attempt to provoke individual reflection rather than reform the political community, may moderate our ambition, ease our despair, and temper our expectations while stiffening our......
December 27, 2021
Sociologist Alexander Riley questions whether the establishment of a woke social justice regime is sufficient for a shared notion of community in American colleges, and delineates the likely consequen......
December 27, 2021
Anthropologist Geoffrey Clarfield talks to Christopher Hallpike, an anthropologist who challenged the suffocating scholarly consensus that “people are the same everywhere” and “that......
December 27, 2021
The racism we see in America today, the kind that operates under the guise of “anti-racism” and culminates in riots and destruction, was concocted in American universities.
December 27, 2021
Sociologist Robert Leroux traces woke ideology from its beginnings to its takeover of the university, from where it emerged.
December 27, 2021
Christopher C. Hull asks if diversity-driven hiring is the cause of declining viewpoint diversity in higher education.
December 27, 2021
The United Nations-sponsored Human Rights Council’s recent report on racial discrimination delivers a torrent of social justice jargon to indict the U.S. system as critically flawed, omitting an......
December 27, 2021
Adam Ellwanger believes that the left conquered K-12 education by focusing on teaching technique and style, while traditionalists obsessed over curriculum content.
December 27, 2021
Mark Mercer argues that discipline against university faculty is improperly used to right a wrong, “correct” thinking, mollify aggrieved parties, and signal the university’s “c......
December 27, 2021
Can something as serious as the assault on liberal education be played for laughs? Political scientist Fred Baumann finds that Scott Johnston’s Campusland and Andrew Pessin’s Nevergreen ta......
December 27, 2021
Wight Martindale finds that Peter Wood’s new book Wrath: America Enraged is as much about patience as passionate indignation.
December 27, 2021
Those in our universities who want to level our corrupt meritocracy should be first to hand over their meritoriously padded fiefdoms.
December 27, 2021
Steve Balch remembers Donald Kagan, a scholar and academic leader, and one of higher education’s most noble citizens.
December 27, 2021
When “minority” claims or hypotheses are dismissed by many in the scientific community, this has happened because of very good reasons internal to the discipline.
December 27, 2021
Does the stifling of dissent impede scientific advance? Berkeley public health professor emeritus Ernest Hook and former dean of Virginia Polytechnic Institute Henry Bauer disagree.
December 27, 2021
A review of "Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture," by Dan Kovalik, Hot Press, 2021, pp. 199, $24.99 hardcover.
December 27, 2021
A review of "Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World," by Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg, One World Publications, 2020, pp. 418, $17.41 hardb......
December 27, 2021
A review of "Minds Wide Shut: How the New Fundamentalism Divides Us," by Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro, Princeton University Press, 202, pp. 289, $28.00 hardcover.
December 27, 2021
A review of "Observations on Music, Culture, and Politics," by Daniel Asia, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021, pp. 252, $99.95 hardcover.
December 27, 2021
A review of "A Dubious Expediency: How Race Preferences Damage Higher Education," eds. Gail Heriot, Maimon Schwarzschild, Encounter, 2021, pp. 336, $21.68 hardcover.
