Teaching as Joyful Rebellion

by Carl R. Trueman

Good teachers must believe something: That the world is and is inexhaustibly greater than they are. Continue Reading »

7 Sep 2016

Playing with Fire

by Carl R. Trueman

Putting LGBTQ history on the school curriculum is merely the symptom. The metaphysical foundations and significance of the new California history syllabus are much deeper and far more consequential than are its moral implications, whatever the Left or the Right might like to think.
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19 Jul 2016

Trouble in Bakersfield

by Carl R. Trueman

Trouble on the Bakersfield school board puts the lie to the idea that pluralism really has a future. We have lost, and we need to understand that and act accordingly.
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7 Jul 2016

A Loss of Trust

by Mark Bauerlein

The ordeal is over; my niece has chosen Tulane. A buddy in Wisconsin has a daughter, and she’s headed to Washington University. Another friend lives in Chicago, but he’s in Boston this week accompanying a daughter on campus tours. For him, the application season has just begun. I see people like . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2016

Gender Non-Conformity Running Roughshod over Parents' Rights

by Carl R. Trueman

School transgender policies may be well-intentioned but they might actually have unanticipated and significant implications for parents and for women. Continue Reading »

4 Apr 2016

What Do You Love?

by Bianca Czaderna

My weight is my love. Wherever I am carried, my love is carrying me.­–Augustine, Confessions What do you want? This is the fundamental question of Christian discipleship. Christ asks two future disciples quite pointedly in the Gospel of John, and asks it indirectly in a number of places: “Will . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2016

Trigger Warnings and Academic Consumerism

by Richard J. Mouw

I have been reading a lot of back-and-forth about “trigger warnings” lately. Students who see themselves as victims of discrimination and abuse are demanding that professors issue warnings about materials in courses they are teaching that might cause strong negative emotional responses in . . . . Continue Reading »

24 Mar 2016

Letters

by Various

TeachersIn his “Re-Educate for America” (November), Malcolm Rivers identifies correctly the cultural hegemony that undergirds the educational establishment (and the leadership class) in America. A decade ago, as a New York City Teaching Fellow (a program in lockstep with Teach for America), I . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2016

The Establishment “Radicals” of the Modern University

by Matthew J. Franck

Next autumn will mark forty years since I arrived on a college campus as a freshman. I’ve never left the academy since then. I have been student or teacher at many types of institutions: the small liberal-arts college, the “Research I” state university that completely dominates a small town, . . . . Continue Reading »

15 Dec 2015

Faith-Based Resistance

by Charles L. Glenn

Last June, I was in Ukraine advising civil society groups that are seeking to ensure that the new Ukrainian education law promotes religious and educational freedom, including the rights of parents. Ukrainian policy-makers are eager to align their country with the West, so a number of times I . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2015