January 27, 2011
This morning I heard from a necessarily anonymous colleague who teaches at a necessarily anonymous college. Her Dean had refused to sign off on a grant application because the granting foundatio......
January 26, 2011
In today’s Pope Center Clarion Call, I comment on the recent, wonderfully iconoclastic New York Times piece on law schools. Students are lured into law school in much the same way they’r......
January 26, 2011
Can there be more than one chiasm (a pattern of concentric parallelism) in a pericope (a paragraph, episode, or story)?
January 25, 2011
The Econ Journal Watch categorizes ten years of titles from Harvard University Press, first culling out all those that have no philosophical angle, then categorizing the remaining books.
January 25, 2011
KC Johnson and Charlotte Allen provide some useful analysis of the Fifth Circuit's appeals level decision upholding the the race-based admissions policies of the University of Texas, Austin.
January 25, 2011
In today's New York Times Room for Debate feature, the topic is how much college students learn. It was prompted by the furor over the recent book Academically Adrift in which the authors conclu......
January 25, 2011
Teaching "ethics" won't prevent the next Enron; ethics can only be taught indirectly, argues Jason Fertig.
January 24, 2011
In today's Pope Center piece, Kurt Rothhoff of Seton Hall writes about an engaging course he has developed -- a lunchtime discussion class covering issues where economics and liberty overlap.&nb......
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....
