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September 2015

September 14, 2015

In loco parentis

Xavier University of Louisiana produces more black medical school students than any other institution in the...

August 2015

August 04, 2015

Peer review and the sin of pride

There's a recent fascinating story of a rising high-school freshman whose work exposed a professor's myth....

June 2015

June 16, 2015

Guest post: two concepts of rationality, Francis M. McLaughlin

In the 1970s, while browsing in a Harvard Square bookstore, I found a thin volume...

June 10, 2015

Review Essay: Paul Shrimpton, The Making of Men

In 1848 an Oxford don named Charles Daman, a close friend of John Henry Newman...

June 01, 2015

The faith that teaching requires

Amidst the eros for metrics in higher education, it is easy to lose focus on...

May 2015

May 07, 2015

Can Catholic universities end poverty?

Sister Amata Miller, I.H.M. is a professor of economics, director of the Myser Initiative...

April 2015

April 24, 2015

Resisting the corporate imperative

Over at Commonweal, Jackson Lears, the Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University, has...

March 2015

March 30, 2015

The meaning of meaning

At the heart of any intellectual exercise is meaning-making. Whether I am using a microscope...

March 20, 2015

What’s the point of a Christian education?

Christiaan W. J. M. Alting von Geusau, president and rector of the International Theological Institute, a...

November 2014

November 05, 2014

The spirituality of the question

What drives the life of the intellect is something that itself is not intellectual: namely,...

September 2014

September 19, 2014

The cor curriculum

My university, Boston College, has developed an insightful new document describing what we hold dear...

September 04, 2014

Excarnation and teaching

My Boston College colleague Richard Kearney has written a thoughtful piece in the New York...