The Illusion of Porn “Literacy”
by Samuel D. James“Porn literacy” is a technocratic evasion to avoid either approving pornography wholesale or condemning it forthrightly. Continue Reading »
What’s in Store for Your Sons
by Alexander RileyThe increasingly dominant view at woke liberal arts schools is that all white heterosexual males are the same. Continue Reading »
No SAT, No ACT, No Problem?
by Mark BauerleinEliminating standardized tests from college admissions won’t be the boon for minority students that progressives think. Continue Reading »
Keeping the Faith
by Christian SmithThe more religiously committed parents are, the more they want their children to grow up believing and practicing the family’s religion. This is especially true of parents who are religiously traditionalist or conservative. The desire to pass on the faith to offspring in a world that does not seem . . . . Continue Reading »
A Victory for Reality
by Carl R. TruemanMeriwether is a sign that there are still a handful of influential people who are not prepared to abandon reality just yet. Continue Reading »
Anti-Religious Education
by Charles L. GlennI spent the first thirty years of my adult life fighting racial injustice in America. I was a community activist in Boston in the sixties, I spent time in jail in North Carolina in 1963, and I walked across that Selma bridge with Dr. King in 1965. I was the Massachusetts state official responsible . . . . Continue Reading »
Reclaiming the Catholic University
by Bryan KernsTo reclaim the distinctiveness of the Catholic university, we must be intentional about developing the “atmospheric culture” of a place like Oxford in the 14th century. Continue Reading »
Briefly Noted
by VariousPepperdine professor Paul J. Contino is a well-known and well-regarded scholar and teacher of Christianity and literature, and he proves himself an engaging and insightful guide to The Brothers Karamazov with this new study. “I began work on this book over thirty years ago,” he notes. . . . . Continue Reading »
Regressive Ed
by Charles L. GlennThe academic achievement gap has been the subject of thousands of books and hundreds of thousands of articles during the past six decades. Do these persistent gaps arise from discrimination on the part of educational systems, or on the part of society in general? Or, do they arise from cultural . . . . Continue Reading »
Lectio Divina and Online Learning
by Margarita A. MooneyLectio divina, whether in seminar rooms or online classrooms, can be part of a creative solution to the challenges of education today. Continue Reading »
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