November 22, 2011
This month NAS chairman Steve Balch discussed the future of the humanities at a symposium in Italy and spoke about the study of Western civilization at Carthage College.
November 22, 2011
Peter Wood argues that the Occupy Wall Street movement is helping Americans realize that college is not necessarily an “investment.”
November 21, 2011
The substance of a legal education, especially at top-tier law schools is worse than bad, it's pretty awful. You'll apparently read lots of high theology about critical legal theory, feminis......
November 21, 2011
Charlotte Allen ponders the curious fascination academics seem to have with a popular singer. Perhaps it's connected to post-modernist theory?
November 21, 2011
In today's Pope Center piece, Duke Cheston writes about a recent conference at Baylor University, where scholars discussed the problems that beset the humanities and found reasons for optimism.
November 18, 2011
There may be multiple reasons underlying the steep decline in male enrollments in American higher education, but I have to think that one is that so many campuses are literally "hostile environments......
November 18, 2011
Student editors and columnists weigh in on how to fix the economy, why Europe is in a fiscal mess, suggest that there's room for more grade inflation and advise how to handle yourself in a tough......
November 18, 2011
With so many used-book stores closing their doors, Peter Wood considers the effect of their disappearance on Academe.
November 17, 2011
On Sunday afternoon Manhattan Institute senior fellow Sol Stern will speak in New York City on the current value of higher education.
November 17, 2011
William Young assesses the impact of postmodern ideology on the natural sciences.
March 3, 2026
The U.S. strike on Iran and the foreign funding shaping how universities respond to it....
March 11, 2026
Trump’s EOs and the Supreme Court make DEI illegal—but colleges keep rebranding it to dodge the law....
January 27, 2026
As Western civilization courses vanish from higher education, so too are history professors, to the detriment of our civilization....
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....
February 21, 2014
Is art worth dying for? The Monuments Men considers the value of good art and its purpose in preserving a cultural heritage....
October 17, 2018
William Young finds much to praise in the hit musical....
