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 »
Gary Saul Morson joins R. R. Reno to talk about his article in the October 2020 issue, “Suicide of the Liberals.” Continue Reading »
The 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 »
The 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 »
The monstrous regiment of administrators in modern universities could learn a thing or two from medieval models of university governance. Continue Reading »
A controversy at my university opened my eyes to how many of my colleagues have been indoctrinated into woke dogma. Continue Reading »
The life of the mind can be a precious, beautiful thing, but divorced from the physical, it leads inexorably to corruption. Continue Reading »
The silencing of conservative voices in political science is an assault on free inquiry into the nature of just governance. Continue Reading »
After 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 goal of today’s academy is an authoritarian state of intellectual conformity in which the conquerors alone rule. Continue Reading »
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