March 30, 2011
Students should take responsibility for their own motivation to learn, not rely on teachers to provide it for them.
March 29, 2011
This Chronicle article covers a recent symposium on that most horrific of problems, an inadequate level of diversity. The focus of this particular symposium was insufficient diversity in the legal p......
March 29, 2011
Peter Wood comments on a new study claiming that self-selection by liberal students explains the leftward tilt of academe.
March 29, 2011
Peter Wood comments on a study that looked for political bias in graduate schools
March 28, 2011
In “The Library of Babel,” Jorge Luis Borges imagines a gargantuan Library in which are shelved books that together exhaust all possible combinations of letters. Obviously, “[f......
March 28, 2011
The University of Wisconsin's Professor William Cronon has involved himself in a partisan Wisconsin battle concerning public employees' bargaining. In his blog he bloviates against the Repub......
March 28, 2011
Jason Fertig modifies tips from the Wall Street Journal for parents of college-bound children.
March 28, 2011
The spring 2011 issue of Academic Questions looks at the ways Islam and higher education interact today.
March 25, 2011
Student journalists ponder US Middle Eastern policies, the stifiling of debate on many campuses, immigration politics and annoying animal rights activists.
March 25, 2011
Peter Wood reflects on the intellectual vacancy at the heart of the contemporary college curriculum.
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....
