Campus Coddling

by Mark Bauerlein

On this episode, Greg Lukianoff and Mark discuss the “The Coddling of the American Mind.”
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27 Sep 2019

Newman’s University Today

by Avery Cardinal Dulles

Cardinal Dulles’s address to the Cardinal Newman Society on November 11, 2001, in Washington, D.C. Continue Reading »

23 Sep 2019

The Smell of Death

by R. R. Reno

Liberalism has created a world in which disordered souls kill themselves with drugs and alcohol—and in which those harboring murderous thoughts feel free to act upon them. Continue Reading »

31 May 2018

Notes from the Sibling Society

by John Waters

The “snowflakes” problem is the result of an absence not so much of adulthood as of grown-ups.  Continue Reading »

9 Apr 2018

The Slow and Steady Shrinkage of the Humanities

by Mark Bauerlein

Humanities professors have forgotten the first principle of undergraduate study in the humanities: inspiration.  Continue Reading »

29 Mar 2018

Sacred Sociology

by Richard Spady

The Sacred Project of American Sociologyby christian smithoxford, 224 pages, $28.95 Things wouldn’t be so bad if the sacred project of American sociology were just the sacred project of American sociology. Allowances are made for sociologists. The problem is that all the human sciences as . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2018

The Two Universities

by Mark Bauerlein

In January, news came out that Emory University received a $400 million gift from the Woodruff Foundation. All of it will go to healthcare and research. That’s $100 million more than Michael Bloomberg’s foundation gave to the school of public health at Johns Hopkins in September 2016. Emory’s . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2018

No Patrimony

by Frank Furedi

The age-old distinction between schoolchildren and university students is fast losing its meaning. On many campuses, the infantilization of university students has become institutionalized. College administrators treat students as if they were biologically mature children rather than young men and . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2018

An Integrated Humanist

by Russell Hittinger

John Senior and the Restoration of Realismby francis bethel, o.s.b.thomas more, 452 pages, $34.99 H igher education has survived the end of the American century, if just barely. American colleges and universities are like a naval mothball fleet that’s still afloat but not seaworthy. Some schools . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2017

The Unpopular Popular Humanities

by Mark Bauerlein

To become an egalitarian in the area of beauty was to cancel your full appreciation of what is great and profound. We all like to slum it, sometimes, but to get too enthusiastic about pop culture materials or, worse, to take them seriously as objects of aesthetic judgment—well, that was an abdication of the critic's responsibilities, not to mention a sign of vulgar taste. Continue Reading »

30 Sep 2016