Campus Confidential

by Mark Bauerlein

Featuring Jacques Berlinerblau on his latest book, Campus Confidential: How College Works, or Doesn’t, for Professors, Parents, and Students. Continue Reading »

16 Nov 2018

Mothers Against Macron

by Joy Pullmann

#PostcardsForMacron is the kind of celebratory, life-affirming message all women need to hear. Continue Reading »

15 Nov 2018

Guardians of Culture

by Mark Bauerlein

Featuring Claudia MacMillan on liberal education. Continue Reading »

9 Nov 2018

Briefly Noted

by Various

On Reading Well:  Finding the Good Life through Great Books by karen swallow prior brazos, 272 pages, $19.99 In On Reading Well, Liberty University English professor Karen Swallow Prior sets forth a thoughtful, nuanced vision of the relationship between morality and literature. This vision . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2018

The Bookish Life

by Joseph Epstein

The village idiot of the shtetl of Frampol was offered the job of waiting at the village gates to greet the arrival of the Messiah. “The pay isn’t great,” he was told, “but the work is steady.” The same might be said about the conditions of the bookish life: low pay but steady . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2018

The Proper Business of Mankind

by Shalom Carmy

Elijah, the great scholar (Gaon) of Vilna in the eighteenth century, is synonymous with total devotion to Torah study above all other pursuits. Paradoxically, because he held that deficiency in mundane wisdom leads to deficient understanding of God’s word, he has also become an emblem for . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2018

Crisis at CUA

by Charlotte Allen

John Garvey, president of Catholic University, is between a rock and a hard place. Continue Reading »

30 Oct 2018

Educating For Liberty

by Peter J. Leithart

Education is genuinely liberal—education for freedom—only if it’s willing to conduct students away from self-love to proper objects of love. Continue Reading »

19 Oct 2018

Cold Vulgarity

by Josh Mayo

The promise of critical thinking often fails to deliver. Continue Reading »

16 Oct 2018

The New Gulags

by Carl R. Trueman

Contrast in educational philosophies could be the difference between a free society and one dominated by gulags, whether of the Siberian or university variety. Continue Reading »

27 Sep 2018