September 9, 2011
A response to reader inquiries about the sixteenth-century English master.
September 9, 2011
Student reporters and editorialists weigh in on unfair media jibes, complex relationships, disquieting historical parallels and suggestions for commencement speakers.
September 8, 2011
Peter Wood reviews a new scholarly re-examination of the Thomas Jefferson-Sally Hemings controversy.
September 8, 2011
William Young examines the replacement of philosophy's pursuit of truth with philodoxy's denial of it.
September 7, 2011
A professor at East Georgia College was just legally vindicated after being terminated, NOT for sexual harassment itself, but for merely criticizing his school's proposed policy at a faculty mee......
September 7, 2011
Professor Robert Weissberg reviews The Fall of the Faculty, adding agonizing details to the author’s tale of woe. Both find that our rampant administrative bloat not only wastes great amounts of......
September 6, 2011
The trouble is, on most college campuses, there is no debate. Students hear over and over that it is "settled" and thus anyone who doubts that humans are responsible for potentially disastrous clima......
September 6, 2011
Richard Shavelson joins Andy Nash for a conversation on measurements and metrics in figuring out the quality of an education.
September 3, 2011
Peter Wood reviews a new scholarly compendium on the relationship beteen Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings. It's a controversial topic, of course, but I'm beginning to wonder if th......
May 20, 2025
The anecdotal evidence is starting to pile up while academia’s thesis that white men are source of evil continues to crumble....
March 31, 2025
Columbia's descent into chaos is by its own hand. Actions to right the university must be swift and tough....
March 24, 2025
Are American colleges and universities finally getting their comeuppance?...
May 20, 2025
The anecdotal evidence is starting to pile up while academia’s thesis that white men are source of evil continues to crumble....
May 15, 2015
A look at the double standard that has arisen regarding racism, illustrated recently by the reaction to a black professor's biased comments on Twitter....
October 12, 2010
What does it mean to be Latino? Are only Latin American people Latino, or does the term apply to anyone whose language derived from Latin?...
