February 20, 2025
MTC: A Review of "Don't Go To College"
Kris Larsen
It is easy to assume that the authors of Don't Go To College: A Case For Revolution (2022) would be anti-intellectuals who never darkened a university's doors and are jealous of anyone who did. Ah, bu......
January 29, 2025
MTC: Lowering the Bar Isn’t Equity—All Students Deserve High Standards
Xavier-Laurent Salvador
Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on March 22, 2022. It was translated into English from French by the Observatory before being ed......
January 6, 2025
Article: Comment on Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies
National Association of ScholarsThe Civics Alliance
The Oklahoma State Department of Education has done excellent work to improve the state's draft social studies standards.
January 7, 2025
MTC: From College Adjunct to Classical Schoolteacher: A Response to Mark Bauerlein
Amber Workman
During the COVID-19 lockdowns, I taught two summer literature and research writing courses at an online classical K-12 school after 15 years of teaching college courses. I expected little from the new......
January 1, 2025
MTC: Cheers to the New Year
Kali Jerrard
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the National Association of Scholars on December 31, 2024, and is crossposted here with permission. On behalf of everyone at the National......
December 9, 2024
Statement: NAS Applauds the Passage of HR 5349, the Crucial Communism Teaching Act
National Association of Scholars
HR 5349 is a step in the right direction. The bill will ensure that students know about the tyrannical nature of Communist thought, the blood-stained history of Communist regimes, and the in......
December 16, 2024
MTC: Search for Truth
Michael M. Dediu
Searching for truth is a very old and demanding activity because the truth is omnipresent. Like gravitation or the magnetic field, truth cannot be seen. There is also an apparent truth—when people......
November 26, 2024
MTC: The Party of the Well-Educated Offers the Least Well-Educated Candidates
Robert Weissberg
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by American Thinker on November 15, 2024. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission.......
October 28, 2024
MTC: The Disappearance of the Bookish Kid—and What Colleges Must Do
Mark Bauerlein
An article in the Atlantic about college students not reading books got a lot of circulation this month. Even at top schools such as Columbia University, undergraduates struggle with works of more tha......
September 18, 2024
Academic Questions: A Voice of Sanity
Edward S. Shapiro
Coleman Hughes’ The End of Race Politics, provides an extended defense of the colorblind society, which Shapiro calls a “persuasive and compelling counter to the New York Times&#......