Academic Questions

Fall 2023

Volume 36 Issue 3

October 18, 2023

The Issue at a Glance

Preview articles in this issue with articles by Warren Treadgold, Victor Schmithorst, Daniel Asia, Jonathan Katz, Bruce Gilley, and others.

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October 18, 2023

The Full Spectrum of Humanity

Carol Iannone

Editor's introduction to the Fall 2023 issue.

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October 18, 2023

A Strategy for Reforming American Universities

Warren Treadgold

Warren Treadgold believes it might finally be possible to achieve real higher education reform.

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October 18, 2023

The American Psychological Association’s Abortion Bias

Victor Schmithorst

Rather than furthering psychology’s status as a science and relevant field of healthcare, the APA functions as a political apparatus for progressive causes.

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October 18, 2023

Wynton Marsalis: What We Need Now

Daniel Asia

Composer and Professor of Composition Daniel Asia traces the rise of Jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis

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October 18, 2023

Fleeing Tension by Fleeing Classics

Mark Adair

Mark Adair avers that we may have reduced the role of the classics in university curricula simply because it is too hard.

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October 18, 2023

Did American Police Originate from Slave Patrols?

Timothy Hsiao

The claim that American policing “traces back” to, “started out” as, or “evolved directly from,” southern slave patrols, is false.

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October 19, 2023

Diversity: The Last Refuge of Scoundrels

Jonathan Katz

When a university administrator talks about “diversity” he is changing the subject from his proper responsibility—improving the quality of teaching, research, and learning.

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October 19, 2023

Literary Friendship, Dinosaurs, and Retrieving Our Literary Legacy

Donald T. Williams

Donald T. Williams absorbs the work of literary greats so thoroughly that it is appropriate to consider these authors “friends.”

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October 19, 2023

Henry Rosovsky and African American Studies at Harvard

Jonathan Burack

Harvard’s renowned Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Henry Rosovsky challenged the worst tendencies in higher education when they were first emerging.

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October 19, 2023

We Need Some Muscle Over Here!

Bruce Gilley

At a March 2023 meeting of the NAS affiliate California Association of Scholars, NAS treasurer and board member Brue Gilley assessed the challenges and achievements of both organizations.

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October 19, 2023

Foisting Race upon Shakespeare’s Plays

Gorman Beauchamp

Gorman Beauchamp is angered (and somewhat amused) that the work of the great Bard has now been scrutinized under the lens of antiracist ideology.

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October 23, 2023

The DEI Debacle

Michael Wesley Suman

Michael Wesley Suman says some technical glitches reduce the value of the new anthology Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity and the Threat to Academic Freedom.

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October 23, 2023

What We Should Teach the Children

David Randall

Timothy Goeglein makes a strong moral and cultural case for teaching the “Great American Story.”

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October 23, 2023

What Happened to Common Core?

Charles Chieppo and Jamie Gass

Charles Chieppo and Jamie Glass review Tom Loveless’s take on why the Common Core curriculum failed.

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October 23, 2023

Measuring the Good Against the Bad

John Adam Moreau

John H. Garvey reminds us of the importance of living virtuously.

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October 23, 2023

The Victim’s Revolution Revisited

James W. Springer

James W. Springer explains why Bruce Bawer’s pivotal text remains indispensable.

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October 23, 2023

Redeeming Fraternities

Robert Carle

Anthony B. Bradley believes college fraternities can help alleviate the crisis our young men are experiencing.

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