December 27, 2021
Social justice ideology has redefined the meaning of “equality” and “freedom,” devastating the study of humanities. The answer? Return, without shame, to the reading of Great B......
December 27, 2021
While “wokeness” attracts students starved for purpose and meaning, it fails to produce people whose excellent personal qualities are self-evident. Liberal education does just that.
December 27, 2021
National Association of Scholars Board Chairman Keith Whitaker introduces David Bolotin’s provocative remarks at a St. John’s College presentation.
December 27, 2021
Political correctness, with its power to enforce consequences on those who challenge its orthodoxies, has suppressed the reasoned examination of society’s deepest moral convictions.
December 14, 2020
One of the great liberal educators of our time and a National Humanities Medal recipient, Eva Brann is a tireless scholar and mentor whose work “stands out because it draws on the foundation tha......
December 14, 2020
Preparing the mind for meaningful discovery—precisely what liberal education is charged with doing—has been superseded in colleges and universities by the values of “management.̶......
December 14, 2020
A central figure in that group known colloquially as the “New York intellectuals” and the founding editor of Dissent, Irving Howe stubbornly maintained his commitment to Enlightenment valu......
March 23, 2020
The purpose of liberal arts education was once conceived as the social and intellectual maturation of students. But with the importation of “Humboldtian” distribution requirements in the n......
September 3, 2019
In the final entry of our “Incapacity” feature, Stephen Hicks argues that supporters of liberal education must wrest control of our schools back from postmodernists who, in their rejection......
