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February 2024

February 26, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 2/26/24

Censoring both "old climate denial" and "new climate denial"; saving university education; and we're just...

December 2023

December 12, 2023

On the Radicals’ Takeover of Higher Education

The open support of Islamic terrorism and the rebirth of old-school anti-semitism--which goes beyond opposition...

August 2023

August 10, 2023

Meritocracy? What Meritocracy?

David Brooks takes to task his fellow Ivy League-educated professionals who have formed a new...

January 2023

January 12, 2023

The Invasion of Academia into the Public Square

Why is woke ideology suddenly rampant in corporate boardrooms, the government bureaucracy, and popular culture? ...

December 2022

December 07, 2022

How Institutions Become Corrupt

Two historians say that institutions become corrupt when "they continue to function, but in ways...

August 2022

August 29, 2022

The Inflation Expansion Act

By executive order, President Biden is canceling much of the college debt incurred from student...

September 2021

September 30, 2021

The Shortage of Men Going to College

The percentage of men going to college as compared to women has dropped to record...

September 08, 2021

Post-America

In the aftermath of the Afghanistan debacle, many observers are seeing the end of America's...

August 2021

August 04, 2021

When Medical Schools Can’t Teach Biology

Woke culture is now going beyond the humanities and the social sciences to the hard...

April 2021

April 09, 2021

What Rejecting God Did to Higher Education

Mark Mitchell connects the dots between the loss of God and the current collapse of...

April 24, 2018

Do Academic Freedom and Tenure Apply to Conservative Professors?

Professor John McAdams was a tenured political science professor at Marquette University, a Jesuit institution...

August 2017

August 03, 2017

A classical alternative to the SAT & ACT

High school graduates who want to go to college nearly always have to take the...

July 2017

July 17, 2017

Discrimination in footnotes

Two geographers have written an academic article arguing that scholars should not cite research by so...

March 2017

March 30, 2017

Student suspended for disagreeing with Muslim professor

Muslims believe that Jesus was not really crucified. According to the Qur'an, That they said...

April 2015

April 22, 2015

U. S. History as oppression studies

The National Association of Scholars, an organization of conservative academics, has put out an FAQ...

April 20, 2015

Universities recruiting girls to have late-term abortions

The University of Hawaii and the University of Washington-Seattle are recruiting girls as young as...

March 2015

March 04, 2015

The value of Christian colleges

A major secular educator, David Coleman, spent some time at Wheaton College, which taught him...

January 2015

January 13, 2015

Claiming religious exemption without the religion

The National Labor Relations Board has said that colleges, in general, must allow professors to...

January 12, 2015

Free community college?

President Obama wants to provide two free years of community college to all Americans, at...

October 2014

October 24, 2014

The University of North Carolina’s “shadow curriculum”

For eighteen years, the University of North Carolina has had a "shadow curriculum" in which...

September 2014

September 16, 2014

A free-market solution to religious bigotry

After telling about some universities that are "derecognizing" Christian organizations, Joe Carter proposes a "free...

October 2013

October 28, 2013

What the crises in health care and higher education have in common

Patrick J. Deneen writes about the similarities between the current crises in health care and...

September 2013

September 04, 2013

Storming Wikipedia

Wikipedia depends on readers and volunteer editors to write, edit, and correct its entries. Theoretically,...

August 2013

August 28, 2013

From the Humanities to the Subhumanities

Part of the problem with the way the humanities are often taught today and part...

June 2013

June 26, 2013

Universities partnering with dictators

That blind Chinese dissident who was under house arrest for opposing forced abortion and escaped...

June 20, 2013

College does NOT undermine faith

Glenn T. Stanton, in a useful feature at Gospel Coalition called "FactChecker," cites research overturning...

April 2013

April 05, 2013

Finding Your Vocation in College

Anthony Sacramone asked me to write something on "How to Find Your Vocation in College"...

September 2012

September 10, 2012

Progressivism and college football

George Will reviews The Rise of Gridiron University: Higher Education's Uneasy Alliance with Big-Time Football...

March 2012

March 14, 2012

College does not cause students to lose their faith

Presidential candidate Rick Santorum has been saying that 62% of college students lose their faith...

February 2012

February 28, 2012

No adult supervision

Alexandra Petri usually writes humorous punditry, but not when she considers the case of George...