Academic Questions

Spring 2023

Volume 36 Issue 1

May 8, 2023

The Issue at a Glance

Carol Iannone

The issue at a glance for Spring 2023.

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May 8, 2023

Letters

Carol Iannone

Letters to the Editor, Volume 36, Issue 1.

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May 8, 2023

The Past Conditional

Carol Iannone

Editor's introduction to the Spring 2023 issue of Academic Questions.

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May 8, 2023

Poetry and Western Civilization

Catharine Savage Brosman

Despite those seeking to undermine canonical works and the societies that produced them, poetry remains central to the Western heritage.

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May 8, 2023

Yelling FIRE on Campus: Free Speech Leaders and Laggards

Robert Maranto and Martha Bradley-Dorsey

An evaluation of 2021 survey data measuring free speech on American college campuses has some surprising results.

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May 8, 2023

Democracy and Adult ESL Education during COVID

Janet L. Eyring

The silence of teachers of English as a Second Language in the face of a disastrous open border policy is deafening.

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May 8, 2023

Christian Students on a Secular Campus

Cola Buskirk

Despite the warnings given to young Christian students about hedonistic college campuses, journalist Cola Buskirk finds that at Stanford, many Christian students arrive to find lively Christian organi......

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May 8, 2023

Acting like an Actress

Carol Iannone

The new edition of a book about the box office failure of the 1990 movie Bonfire of the Vanities provides a chance to consider the representation of offensive, scurrilous, and sensitive subjects in ar......

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May 8, 2023

The Progressive Assault on American Philanthropy

Edward S. Shapiro

A recent book attacking Jewish Philanthropy reveals the antagonism of the left to private wealth.

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May 8, 2023

Where to the Woke?

Matthew Stewart

An academic activist, a center-right journalist, and a university president have each authored recent books explaining the rise of woke progressivism at American universities.

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May 8, 2023

Beyond Bakke

John Rosenberg

As the nation awaits the Supreme Court ruling in two important cases on affirmative action and racial discrimination in higher education, John Rosenberg clarifies the complex history of such rulings,......

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May 8, 2023

Classics: Inside Out and Upside Down

Joshua T. Katz

An ostracized humanities professor defends the study of Classics against the “loud voices inside the academy” that have “been calling for burning down the field.”

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May 8, 2023

We Must Re-Establish Standards in Higher Education

Michael Wesley Suman

Declines in admissions standards and academic rigor, along with grade inflation, are some of the problems outlined in a letter from a UCLA sociologist to the school’s Academic Senate Program......

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May 8, 2023

The Victimhood Cult

Jason Richwine

Jason Richwine reviews Vivek Ramaswamy’s A Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence

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May 8, 2023

God and Gender Ideology

Douglas Groothuis

Douglas Groothuis reviews Abigail Favale’s The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory

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May 8, 2023

Liberal, Jewish, Anti-Woke

Seth Forman

Seth Forman reviews David L. Bernstein’s Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews

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May 8, 2023

The Right Stuff

Edward S. Shapiro

Edward S. Shapiro reviews Matthew Continetti’s The Right: The Hundred Year War for American Conservatism

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May 8, 2023

Nothing but Shallow Resentment

Alexander Riley

Alexander Riley reviews Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain’s Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

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May 8, 2023

Class Struggle: How the Media Became the Ivory Tower

Robert Maranto

Robert Maranto reviews Batya Ungar Sargon’s Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy.

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May 8, 2023

Bicycles in a Sea of Fish?

Robert Carle

Robert Carle reviews Richard Reeves’s Of Boys and Men.

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May 8, 2023

The Ugliness of the Federal Student Loan System

Neetu Arnold

Neetu Arnold reviews Josh Mitchell’s The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe

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