Surveying Sex, Denying Childhood

by Carl R. Trueman

A survey administered by California schools makes children disclose their sexual behavior and marginalizes mom and dad. Continue Reading »

6 Apr 2017 0

Going Benedict, Orthodox Jewish Style

by Bethany Mandel

The Jewish community has a great deal more experience than the Christian community at operating independently of many of society’s boundaries. Continue Reading »

31 Mar 2017 0

The Right to Be Yourself?

by Douglas Farrow

If authentic naming or identifying is a strictly private, self-governed enterprise, what is there that is truly public? If my public persona is entirely under my control, and if I can die to my old self and rise to my new self any time I choose and in whatever manner I choose, and if indeed I am not to be burdened by my old “dead” name, as the Dean of Law says, in what sense is my persona public? Continue Reading »

9 Mar 2017 0

Yale’s Accidental Tribute to John C. Calhoun

by Leah Libresco Sargeant

John C. Calhoun, in being removed, was awarded an odd sort of honor: His ideas were treated as relevant and dangerous. Continue Reading »

17 Feb 2017 0

How Does Catholic Identity Affect Hookup Culture?

by Jason King

A school's Catholic identity does affect hookup culture—but not in a simple or straightforward way. Continue Reading »

9 Feb 2017 0

Time for Parents to Resist Transgender Activism

by Emily Zinos

With public schools fast becoming incubators of gender ideology, parents need to cast off their fears of entering the fray. Continue Reading »

20 Jan 2017 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 Establishment “Radicals” of the Modern University

by Matthew J. Franck

Next autumn will mark forty years since I arrived on a college campus as a freshman. I’ve never left the academy since then. I have been student or teacher at many types of institutions: the small liberal-arts college, the “Research I” state university that completely dominates a small town, . . . . Continue Reading »

15 Dec 2015 0

Baylor at the Crossroads

by Francis Beckwith

I joined Baylor University’s faculty in July 2003 after a brief stint as a Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton. What drew me to Baylor is what has attracted, and continues to attract, hundreds of other prospective faculty members: the ideals and goals of the school’s . . . . Continue Reading »

10 Nov 2015 0

School Shootings and the Book of Job

by Abigail Rine Favale

Last Thursday morning, I was teaching a freshman honors seminar in Newberg, Oregon. We were discussing Genesis 32, that enigmatic passage where Jacob wrestles with God. Just south of us, in Roseburg, Oregon, my students’ counterparts were being murdered in their writing classroom. In another of . . . . Continue Reading »

8 Oct 2015 0