March 28, 2011
In “The Library of Babel,” Jorge Luis Borges imagines a gargantuan Library in which are shelved books that together exhaust all possible combinations of letters. Obviously, “[f......
March 28, 2011
The University of Wisconsin's Professor William Cronon has involved himself in a partisan Wisconsin battle concerning public employees' bargaining. In his blog he bloviates against the Repub......
March 28, 2011
Jason Fertig modifies tips from the Wall Street Journal for parents of college-bound children.
March 28, 2011
The spring 2011 issue of Academic Questions looks at the ways Islam and higher education interact today.
March 25, 2011
Student journalists ponder US Middle Eastern policies, the stifiling of debate on many campuses, immigration politics and annoying animal rights activists.
March 25, 2011
Peter Wood reflects on the intellectual vacancy at the heart of the contemporary college curriculum.
March 24, 2011
Students and faculty gathered at the seminary to rehearse racial grievances and express outrage over flyers distributed on campus about the link between eugenics and African American abortions.
March 24, 2011
Has there been a report made comparing graduation rates with and without Pell Grants?
March 23, 2011
This week Neil Gross and his colleagues released two new studies analyzing clues as to why the majority of professors are politically liberal. They focus on graduate school. What sort of person goes t......
March 23, 2011
My former student Joshua, now ambivalently quartered at UC Santa Cruz (home of the fightin’ Banana Slugs and currently under Federal investigation for systemic anti-Semitism), has an a......
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?...
June 5, 2024
Ohio Northern University gnaws its teeth with an appetite for vindictive lawfare....
