March 15, 2010
In today's Pope Center piece, Larry Purdy (one of the lawyers who worked on the Grutter case) reviews Affirmative Action for the Future by Notre Dame philosophy professor James Sterba. Purdy fin......
March 15, 2010
Communist countries like Russia have developed with extraordinary speed in the past decades entirely by means of public enterprise. In fact, by our index of the rate of economic growth, i.e.,......
March 15, 2010
A French court puts an American editor on trial over a German book review that offended an Israeli scholar. Hmm...
March 15, 2010
Peter Wood paints a picture of what federal control of higher education could look like in practice.
March 15, 2010
Enlightenment thinkers concluded that the balance of power can recover its stability but that the loss of public virtue occurs slowly and is not recoverable.
March 12, 2010
In his book Moral Development: Advances in Research and Theory (NY: Praeger, 1986) James Rest of the University of Minnesota and his colleagues describe their work on "moral maturity" using the......
March 12, 2010
A professor who challenged the cruel oppression of the Soviet Union serves as an example for us today.
March 12, 2010
Public virtue in the ancient republics meant moral excellence necessary for political stability and achievement in government.
March 11, 2010
Remember Sex Week at Yale last month? I know it's over until next year, but take heart: Princeton is apparently maintaining Ivy League standards with a talk on pornography by a real pro -"femini......
March 11, 2010
Today's Wall Street Journal has a letter from Rep. John Garamendi (D - CA) who says that he's siding with the protesting students because raising tuition is "bad economics." Why is it bad to......
January 24, 2024
The idea has caught on that the radical left overplayed its hand in DEI and is now vulnerable to those of us who seek major reforms. This is not, however, the first time that the a......
February 13, 2024
All signs show that American education is beginning a long and painful divorce with the People’s Republic of China. But will academia go through with it?...
October 31, 2023
A faculty hiring committee at the University of Washington “inappropriately considered candidates’ races when determining the order of offers,” provided “disparate op......
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?...
September 21, 2010
A reader asks, "If Elohim refers to multiple 'gods,' then Yhwh Elohim really means Lord of Gods...the one of many, right?" A Hebrew expert answers....
