Medicating the Masses

by Adrian Gaty

Conform or be drugged. We used to make dystopian movies about it; now we make our children live it. Continue Reading »

17 Mar 2023 0

A Message for Humanities PhDs

by Mark Bauerlein

These classical schools are happy places. Humanities departments in higher ed are not.  Continue Reading »

27 Feb 2023 0

Are “Merely Christian” Colleges Enough?

by Clifford Humphrey

Many Christian institutions have become prone to mission-drift and to conflating voguish pieties with gospel mandates because they have come to embrace an identity of “mere Christianity” over confessional particularity. Continue Reading »

7 Feb 2023 0

Return to the Classics

by Jeremy Tate

A rising number of students today are drawn to schools that emphasize tradition and faith. Continue Reading »

2 Jan 2023 0

The Sad Fate of Girls’ Schools

by Kari Jenson Gold

In our thirteen years at the Nightingale-Bamford School, we experienced wonderful times and difficult ones. Yet, you could hardly recognize the school today. Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2022 0

Are Spain’s Catholic Schools Still Catholic?

by Itxu Díaz

Many Catholic schools in Spain, voluntarily or not, are failing to teach students Church teaching on sexual issues.  Continue Reading »

24 Oct 2022 0

The Civic Duties of Hasidic Schools

by Cole S. Aronson

The New York Times reports an alarmingly high fail rate for children in Hasidic schools, and though the Times is biased, the truth of the claim desperately demands discussion.  Continue Reading »

22 Sep 2022 0

How Not to Staff a Catholic School

by Mark Bauerlein

Reading a Catholic school's job description often indicates that Catholicism is not their first priority. Continue Reading »

20 Sep 2022 0

Spare the Truth, Spoil the Child

by M. D. Aeschliman

After a teaching career of fifty years, I agree with E. D. Hirsch that the primary problem in American public education is not the high schools, but the poorly organized, ineffective elementary school curricula, including the idiotic books of childish fiction.  Continue Reading »

5 Sep 2022 0

Put Down the Woke Man's Burden

by James Hankins

A leader needs the ability to champion an institution’s goals in reasonable, moral terms that can win approbation from both subordinates and outsiders. Bad conduct, incompetent speech, neglect of institutional goods, pursuit of private or factional interests—all of that dishonors and dispirits the whole enterprise. Continue Reading »

25 Aug 2022 0