April 10, 2024
MTC: Curricular Visions: Revitalizing the Great Books
David Kane
Editor’s Note: David Randall's Curriculum of Liberty illuminates the pressing demand for American higher education to equip students with essential knowledge, character, and tools needed to confront c......
February 24, 2024
Article: My Favorite Undergraduate History Professor
John M. Brown
"By contemporary recommended educational procedures and commonly accepted best practices, Dr. Jensen did it “all wrong.” Yet he became, and remains, my all-time favorite college teache......
February 28, 2024
Academic Questions: American History Done Right
John Adam Moreau
John Adam Moreau insists that in Wight Martindale Jr.’s American History from the Beginning to 1876: A Home School Guide, we finally have the appropriate rigor, balance, passion, and a......
February 28, 2024
Academic Questions: The Issue at a Glance
Preview articles in this issue with pieces by Steven Balch, Naomi Farber, Edward S. Shapiro, R. Lawrence Purdy, and others.
February 28, 2024
Academic Questions: Was Newark’s “White Flight” Racist?
Stephen Kershnar
An account of Jack Cashill’s fascinating memoir Untenable: The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America’s Cities. Cashill’s book focuses on the city of Newark, NJ and chal......
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,......