July 28, 2010
Some students just want to pass; others want to learn. One professor's study of martial arts inspired a method for dealing with this motivational disparity.
July 27, 2010
Philosophy professor James Otteson weighs in with some thoughtful comments here.
July 27, 2010
Our friends at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education continue their stellar work defending the academic freedom and First Amendment rights of college faculty members - especially untenur......
July 27, 2010
Sustainability assessment on campus says a lot about the larger movement's need to count points.
July 27, 2010
An academic official seeks to censor a Hamilton professor's NAS article "Dictatorships and Double Standards."
July 26, 2010
The summer issue of Academic Questions takes the pulse of campus culture and considers how the attitudes formed in college affect broader American culture.
July 23, 2010
Back when Bravo provided high culture, I was entranced by a South Bank Show episode on a Caribbean poet named Derek Walcott. When I saw Walcott would read at Stanford, I raced to hear him in per......
July 23, 2010
In today's Pope Center piece, my colleague Jay Schalin writes about the flap over the fact that some colleges have accepted funds from BB&T Foundation with the proviso that the money be used......
July 23, 2010
I could be wrong, but in the wake of all the mudwrestling that's followed the NAACP's recent branding of Tea Partiers as racists, I think that the ideological fulcrum of the "diversity" deba......
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....
June 5, 2024
Ohio Northern University gnaws its teeth with an appetite for vindictive lawfare....
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?...
