December 12, 2024
Preview articles in this issue with pieces by Shale Horowitz, Jan H. Blits, Yuriy V. Karpov, and others.
December 12, 2024
Readers respond to Peter Wood's thoughts on "institutional neutrality" and other articles from Academic Questions.
December 12, 2024
Forget Harvard and Columbia. The failure to enforce laws and maintain order in the face of pro-Hamas protests in 2023 was even more egregious at the state University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
December 12, 2024
The first step in truly understanding the plays of the Bard is to give careful attention to their dramatic settings. This is no easy task, given the considerable effort the literary world has made tow......
December 12, 2024
The murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson at the hands of an Ivy League graduate is one more indication that our young people are angry, depressed, and radicalized. What role have k-12 schools......
December 12, 2024
Two recent instances of biomedical research misconduct suggest that Japanese research institutions are far more willing to take punitive measures than their American counterparts.
December 12, 2024
University professors share with students the analytical tools of various “critical” theories, while students are only too eager to apply their inadequate understanding of them to real wor......
December 12, 2024
Steve Balch fears that Artificial Intelligence will treat us “as collateral damage in whatever global makeover the intelligent machines may eventually oversee.”
December 12, 2024
Percival Everett’s James: A Novel is a rewrite of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of the slave Jim. But Gorman Beauchamp wonders if Twain’s “unforgettable in......
December 12, 2024
William L. Howard assesses the effectiveness of two new studies that attempt to bolster and reclaim the South’s literary gravitas.
December 12, 2024
Eric Kaufmann’s The Third Awokening locates the genesis of woke ideology in the little examined taboos of the progressive elite.
December 12, 2024
David Randall dissects Josephine Crawley Quinn’s How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History, the latest scholarly effort to offshore the West’s achievements to the rest of the world......
December 12, 2024
Anthony Daniels wades through the multi-author Ideological and Political Bias in Psychology, the most serious attempt to detail the capture of psychology by a damaging world view.
December 12, 2024
Tracy Lee Simmons’ On Being Civilized is an erudite discussion of the “dumpster fire of education at all levels, the divorce from the wisdom of the West, the embrace of victimhood,”
December 12, 2024
Mark G. Brennan believes The New Global Universities can be used as “a field guide to the entrepreneurial administrators reconfiguring the modern university while ‘imagining a new world......
December 12, 2024
Historian Jay A. Bergman enjoys Graham James McAleer and Alexander S. Rosenthal-Pubul’s The Wisdom of Our Ancestors because it asks whether there exists “a specifically conservative politi......
December 12, 2024
Kevin Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer promote “a bitterly cynical view towards our nation’s past” in Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies About our Past.
December 12, 2024
Glynn Custred describes Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott’s The Canceling of the American Mind as a valuable source for understanding the origins of cancel culture.
December 12, 2024
Jukka Savolainen peruses Yascha Mounk’s The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time and comes away convinced that Mounk spends too much time “flattering the moral sensibiliti......
December 12, 2024
Susan Carlson’s The Art of Diversity: A Chronicle of Advancing the University of California Faculty tells the story of how a high level administrator helped the University of California adopt DE......
December 12, 2024
In Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative renowned political economist Glenn C. Loury speaks unabashedly of his many bad decisions.
December 12, 2024
David Randall lambasts Michael S. Roth for using The Student: A Short History to give us a “complacent and tranquilizing reassurance that nothing has gone wrong” in American higher educati......
