The Fraud of Higher Education

by Benjamin Myers

Universities stay relevant not by chasing the needs of the moment, but by addressing themselves to the lasting questions in human life. Continue Reading »

19 Mar 2019

The Past in Full

by Charles L. Glenn

There’s a book I keep in the bathroom at home, a big blue volume of 750 pages titled, somewhat ironically, The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes. A terrific book to browse in, with more than four thousand brief anecdotes about more than two thousand individuals from ancient times to the near . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2019

Methodist Madness

by Charlotte Allen

Duke and other historically-Methodist institutions are lobbying the United Methodist Church to officially change its teaching on sexuality. Continue Reading »

12 Feb 2019

The Hardest Course You’ll Ever Take

by Mark Bauerlein

Featuring Hillsdale College professor Eric Hutchinson on teaching a humanities course originally designed and taught by W. H. Auden in 1941. Continue Reading »

8 Feb 2019

The Diversity Delusion

by Mark Bauerlein

Featuring Heather Mac Donald on her latest book, The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture. Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2019

Why I Assigned The Kingdom

by Stephen E. Lewis

 We rarely endorse everything we read. Sometimes we read works with which we strenuously disagree. Continue Reading »

18 Jan 2019

False Counsel at Fordham

by Sebastian Alvarez

Except for a few open-minded and faithful people, Fordham is uninterested in helping students follow what Christ and His Church teach about love and sexuality.  Continue Reading »

8 Jan 2019

Recovering the Moral Imagination

by Mark Bauerlein

Featuring Robert Jackson of Great Hearts Academies on classical education.  Continue Reading »

4 Jan 2019

Wonder Is Critical

by Randy Boyagoda

I finished teaching a university course in faith and ideas a little while ago by administering individual oral exams to forty first-year students. The exams took place in a hotel bar overlooking a volcanic lake. The pope’s summer palace shone in the distance, and the Mediterranean gleamed . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2019

The Virgin Whore and the Humorless Don

by John William Sullivan

Emma Maggie Solberg's The Virgin Whore spends far too much time taking bad jokes and strained wordplay too seriously, and too little time taking basic theology seriously enough. Continue Reading »

20 Dec 2018