February 10, 2024
MTC: Igniting an Appreciation for Abraham Lincoln in Children
Jonathan White
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by RealClear Wire on February 1, 2024 and is crossposted here with permission. Historians and the general public regularly rank Abraham Linc......
January 24, 2024
MTC: How Civics Can Counter Antisemitism on Campus
Pete Peterson & Jack Miller
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by RealClearWire on January 22, 2024 and is crossposted here with permission. The shocking scenes of college students, faculty, and staff de......
January 24, 2024
MTC: The Decline in American Universities, 2011-2024
Richard Vedder
Like ancient Rome, American universities have not fallen or declined in a day—or even a year. But as good of a date as any to measure the beginning of the decline is 2011. Enrollments started falling......
November 13, 2023
MTC: The Collegiate War on Men
Richard Vedder
For two centuries after the founding of Harvard College in 1636, there was grotesque gender discrimination in American colleges and universities: there were no female students. Even in 1950, there wer......
November 9, 2023
MTC: Weird Is What We Need
Jared Gould
Is there hope for higher education? If so, it will be found at the University of Austin (UATX). In an email shared with Minding the Campus yesterday, Pano Kanelos, formerly dean of Christ College,......
October 19, 2023
Academic Questions: Literary Friendship, Dinosaurs, and Retrieving Our Literary Legacy
Donald T. Williams
Donald T. Williams absorbs the work of literary greats so thoroughly that it is appropriate to consider these authors “friends.”
October 18, 2023
Academic Questions: Wynton Marsalis: What We Need Now
Daniel Asia
Composer and Professor of Composition Daniel Asia traces the rise of Jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis
August 30, 2023
MTC: Thucydides as Artist and Individual
Eric-Clifford Graf
(For don Pedro Schwartz, a great economist and a true gentleman) For sociological, political, and economic reasons—family breakdown, information overload, technological innovation, chemical and behav......
August 16, 2023
MTC: American Goddesses
Eric-Clifford Graf
“Stopping first at Ephesus he made sacrifice to Artemis …” —Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War (fifth century BC) “You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.” —Eagles, “Hotel Cali......
June 7, 2023
MTC: Affirmative Action Forever
Hamadryad
In a 2003 Supreme Court decision, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor famously said, “We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary.” Five years to go and … fat c......