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.
It is possible that athletic competition could provide a sound accompaniment to a rigorous liberal arts education. As it’s practiced on today’s college campuses, though, institutional status-striving through the provision of mass entertainment sports has resulted in a disastrous academic compromise. Recent scandals involving college athletics programs provide an opportunity for real reform.
September 18, 2024
A little known 1940 film starring Margaret Sullavan, Jimmy Stewart, and Frank Morgan is perhaps Hollywood’s most successful attempt to dramatize the nature of antisemitism and the Nazi......
May 30, 2018
From the summer issue of Academic Questions, we reprint the controversial article, "The Case for Colonialism." ...
October 18, 2023
The claim that American policing “traces back” to, “started out” as, or “evolved directly from,” southern slave patrols, is false....
March 29, 2019
A study on the partisanship of liberal arts professors at America's top universities. ...
