July 8, 2011
Student reporters weigh in on wimpy TV networks, the reasons for affirmative action's prolonged presence in college admissions, President Obama's unsatisfactory plans for Afghanistan and bei......
July 7, 2011
Is classical higher ed possible today?
July 7, 2011
Science Magazine reports that a computer scientist is going on the offensive against global warming skeptics.
July 6, 2011
As I wrote recently here, knowledge of American history is increasingly unfamiliar to Americans at all levels of the educational process, from K-12 to graduates of top-tier colleges and universities......
July 6, 2011
"The widespread use of high school diplomas and college degrees as employment screening devices by employers has led to a belief that increasing education will increase opportunities, and/or that th......
July 6, 2011
In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, I write about the new book In the Basement of the Ivory Tower by "Professor X." He's an adjunct who teaches English at two lower-tier schools and the......
July 6, 2011
Peter Wood raises the issue of universities' bad stewardship at a recent event in New York.
July 6, 2011
Peter Wood reviews a popular recent novel. He finds some very funny cultural satire as well as themes that resonate in the contemporary academic landscape.
July 6, 2011
Good teaching should result “in a lighting of those lamps in the mind and in the heart that shall eventually show the Way, the Truth, and the Life.”
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....
