Medieval Studies and White Supremacy

by Mark Bauerlein

Identity politics seems to be having difficulties in Medieval Studies, perhaps due to the nature of the field.  Continue Reading »

13 Aug 2018 0

Evaluating the World’s Religions

by Francesca Aran Murphy

Islam, Hinduism, Confucianism, and Buddhism deserve to be studied, not as geographic entities, but as products of religious insight. Continue Reading »

5 Oct 2017 0

Opening Up the World

by Mark Bauerlein

Academic dogma casts religiously inspired critique as narrow and bigoted, but my experience has been the opposite. Continue Reading »

14 Jun 2017 0

The War on Tenure

by Jennifer A. Frey

Academic freedom is the freedom to pursue truth in good faith, unimpeded by fear of dismissal by those who wield power. Now it is under threat.
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23 May 2017 0

Where Her Whimsy Took Me

by Veery Huleatt

I thought it would be little more than a pleasure read, a short break before I got into the serious stuff, but soon I found that my expectations, and my reading habits, were being re-written. Continue Reading »

11 Aug 2016 0

Final Advice for the Untenured Conservative Humanist

by Mark Bauerlein

Part 3, SERVICE. When you join a committee, you either make your colleagues' workdays easier or make them harder. If the latter, they will remember the fact and it may very well come up at tenure time. Continue Reading »

14 Jul 2016 0

More Advice For the Untenured Conservative Humanist

by Mark Bauerlein

Part 2: TEACHING. Sage-on-the-stage, the flipped classroom? No need for that. Just avoid a few crucial missteps. Plus: How to raise your students’ grades without inflating them. Continue Reading »

17 Jun 2016 0

Some Advice
For the Untenured
Conservative Humanist

by Mark Bauerlein

Tenure recommendations for humanities professors have three parts: research, teaching, service. If you are an untenured humanities who is also a religious or social conservative, the bar is set higher for you. I will be offering advice for each category. First, RESEARCH. Continue Reading »

10 Jun 2016 0

Trigger Warnings and Academic Consumerism

by Richard J. Mouw

I have been reading a lot of back-and-forth about “trigger warnings” lately. Students who see themselves as victims of discrimination and abuse are demanding that professors issue warnings about materials in courses they are teaching that might cause strong negative emotional responses in . . . . Continue Reading »

24 Mar 2016 0

The Half-Empty Auditorium

by James Matthew Wilson

The following essay is adapted from Chapter 3 of “The Fortunes of Poetry in an Age of Unmaking.” Those who love literature, or at any rate have a vested interest in making sure great works of literature are taught at universities and that radical politics are not, could only find the conquest . . . . Continue Reading »

16 Dec 2015 0