It will take a major shift in values—away from infantilization and fear and toward learning and joy—before amiable student-professor relations are possible again at places like Princeton. In the meantime, I recommend the University of Dallas. Continue Reading »
Operation Varsity Blues,” the 2019 college admissions scandal, returned to the news earlier this year when a Netflix documentary provided a fresh opportunity to decry abuses of privilege and the selfishness of parents seeking to boast of their children’s achievements. Comforting accounts, to be . . . . Continue Reading »
Neetu Arnold joins the podcast to discuss the state of college debt and her new National Association of Scholars report, “Priced out: What College Costs America.” Continue Reading »
The new wave of identity politics is a consequence of the eradication of a conservative ethos from American life. Continue Reading »
Columbia University is presenting a vision of a nation that might be better characterized by the motto Ex uno plures. Continue Reading »
College students need to rehabilitate a social script that helps them get to know each other with the lights on, in real and not digital relationships. Continue Reading »
Today’s college students no longer know what it means to live or die well. Continue Reading »
Fr. James Martin’s work fails to express, or even take into account, Catholic teaching on what it means to be a person. Continue Reading »
Yale’s “Introduction to Art History,” a longstanding course in a Western Civ tradition, has undergone a diversity revision. Continue Reading »
The true aim of a college education is the development of a citizen: a free person. Continue Reading »
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