Bonevac documents the disappearance of Western Civilization and other broad interdisciplinary humanities courses, along with the dwindling of traditional survey courses. The result is that college graduates emerge with little knowledge of subjects beyond their majors, and only narrow slices of that to boot.
With students now in control of campus and classroom, Epstein wonders if it is all the result of raising children in the therapeutic ethos. Epstein himself was raised in a different ethos, a world in which there was no shortage of adults beseeching youngsters to “grow up.”
May 30, 2018
From the summer issue of Academic Questions, we reprint the controversial article, "The Case for Colonialism." ...
March 29, 2019
A study on the partisanship of liberal arts professors at America's top universities. ...
March 18, 2022
Political scientist and NAS board member Bruce Gilley’s article “The Case for Colonialism” (republished in Academic Questions in the summer of 2018), has been the subject o......
