February 22, 2016
A professor reflects on the decade-old Duke case and the lack of change at the university.
February 18, 2016
Colleges that let in unqualified applicants hire lots of staff for student retention. This raises college costs, drives away poor, qualified students, and doesn't even keep unqualified a......
February 18, 2016
This week's Pope Center Clarion Call essay discusses the politicalization of anthropology.
February 16, 2016
In a Huffington Post article, Professor Andrew Pessin explains how students can take back their government from divisive activists.
February 11, 2016
Professor Jonathan Marks critiques Julie Posselt's most recent book on grad school admission processes.
February 10, 2016
Professor Francis B. Randall comments upon NAS President Peter Wood's "The Architecture of Intellectual Freedom."
February 9, 2016
Common reading programs are back in the spotlight.
February 9, 2016
John K. Wilson and David Randall discuss NAS President Peter Wood's "The Architecture of Academic Freedom"
February 9, 2016
A report on the books assigned in 2014-2016 as "common reading."
May 7, 2024
The mobs desecrating the American flag, smashing windows, chanting genocidal slogans—this always was the end game of the advocates of the right to protest, action civics, student activ......
March 9, 2024
Claireve Grandjouan, when I knew her, was Head of the Classics Department at Hunter College, and that year gave a three-hour Friday evening class in Egyptian archaeology....
April 20, 2024
By all means, pursue your noble dream of improving the condition of humanity through your research and teaching. Could I do it all again, I would, but I would do things very differently....
May 15, 2015
A look at the double standard that has arisen regarding racism, illustrated recently by the reaction to a black professor's biased comments on Twitter....
October 12, 2010
What does it mean to be Latino? Are only Latin American people Latino, or does the term apply to anyone whose language derived from Latin?...
September 21, 2010
A reader asks, "If Elohim refers to multiple 'gods,' then Yhwh Elohim really means Lord of Gods...the one of many, right?" A Hebrew expert answers....
