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November 2015

November 12, 2015

Pluralism or catholicity?

Nicholas Kristof reflects intelligently on the problems faced by campuses like the University of Missouri and...

March 2015

March 17, 2015

Benedict and Francis: two models for the modern Catholic university

The challenge to Catholic higher education today is different from those of a generation or...

February 2015

February 26, 2015

Catholic universities and the state

While perusing news about Catholic universities today, I was struck by two stories that I...

February 11, 2015

Faith in higher education

Last Wednesday, the presidents of Catholic University of America, Yeshiva University, and Baylor University--three of the...

January 2015

January 14, 2015

An originating Jesuit mission at the university

Robert John Araujo, S.J., the John Courtney Murray, S.J. Professor of Law at Loyola University...

December 2014

December 18, 2014

Free speech at Marquette

Eugene Volokh, the Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, wrote in...

November 2014

November 13, 2014

Bishops’ accreditation?

Over at Aleteia, Randall B. Smith considers the college accreditation process, and argues that bishops could...

October 2014

October 17, 2014

Catholic intellectual tradition

Below are excerpts from a paper I published in 2009 in the journal Logos: A Journal...

October 15, 2014

Coming out as Christian in the Academy

Margery Eagan writes in Crux about professors who must hide their Christian faith amidst lingering prejudice in...