Jean Yarbrough on the NAS Bowdoin Report

Don’t miss this. It is the best essay I have read on the liberal dominance of higher education in a long time . Nothing fancy, just the situation. Yarbrough, a professor of political science at Bowdoin, and the author of excellent books on TR and TJ , responded to her school newspaper’s . . . . Continue Reading »

PowerPoint and Philosophy

I make the argument here that an increasing reliance upon Powerpoint among college professors in the humanities reveals much about the state of liberal education and the condition of professional philosophy today. A snippet: The hidden premise beneath the proliferation of PowerPoint in university . . . . Continue Reading »