The Honor Deficit
by James HankinsThe decline of meritocratic standards in American universities, and the rise of identity-based admissions, is leading to an honor deficit that might well spell the end of elite education. Continue Reading »
Columbia’s Crumbling Core
by David AcevedoThe Great Books will live on one way or another, but if recent trends are any indication, there will be no Core Bicentennial to celebrate. Continue Reading »
Intellectual Freedom in Medieval Universities
by James HankinsThe monstrous regiment of administrators in modern universities could learn a thing or two from medieval models of university governance. Continue Reading »
The Rise of Wildean Wokeism
by Alexander RileyA controversy at my university opened my eyes to how many of my colleagues have been indoctrinated into woke dogma. Continue Reading »
Jesus the Carpenter
by Kari Jenson GoldThe life of the mind can be a precious, beautiful thing, but divorced from the physical, it leads inexorably to corruption. Continue Reading »
Ostracizing Claremont
by Patrick J. DeneenThe silencing of conservative voices in political science is an assault on free inquiry into the nature of just governance. Continue Reading »
Truth, Reading, Decadence
by Mark BauerleinAfter Harold Bloom died in October 2019, E. D. Hirsch told a story from the early 1960s, when they were assistant professors of English at Yale. They both had lived not far from campus, and Hirsch frequently spotted Bloom walking past his house and joined him for a stroll to the office. They had . . . . Continue Reading »
The Inner Ring of the Academy
by Augustus HowardThe goal of today’s academy is an authoritarian state of intellectual conformity in which the conquerors alone rule. Continue Reading »
First Things is a Beacon
by Mark BauerleinWe sit halfway between academia and the public square, trying to merge the best of both. With your help, we can continue. Continue Reading »
Politics and the Sacred
by R. R. RenoBret Stephens recently championed the “classically liberal concept of a neutral public square.” In this issue, Matthew Schmitz examines similar assertions by George Will. These accounts characterize any substantive basis for civic life as “illiberal,” even “theocratic.” They entail a . . . . Continue Reading »
America's most
influential
journal of
religion and
public life
Subscribe
Latest Issue
Support First Things
influential
journal of
religion and
public life
Subscribe
Latest Issue
Support First Things
Filter Tag Articles
Subscribe Today!
