In the fall of 2021, a student at the University of Dallas asked me to give a tribute to Dr. Louise Cowan, one of the most famous faculty members at the university, as part of an event centered on remembering the dead for All Saints and All Souls. I had had no occasion to commemorate her when . . . . Continue Reading »
Not long before the pandemic, I met a senior foreign-policy scholar at a major conservative think tank. She was visiting the New York Post opinion pages, where I worked at the time, to promote a white paper she’d just written. The title was something modest, like After Terror: . . . . Continue Reading »
The decline of meritocratic standards in American universities, and the rise of identity-based admissions, is leading to an honor deficit that might well spell the end of elite education. Continue Reading »
On this episode, Elizabeth Bachmann, a Junior Fellow at First Things, interviews Mark Bauerlein about his new book, The Dumbest Generation Grows Up: From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults. Continue Reading »
The monstrous regiment of administrators in modern universities could learn a thing or two from medieval models of university governance. Continue Reading »
The life of the mind can be a precious, beautiful thing, but divorced from the physical, it leads inexorably to corruption. Continue Reading »
If the university meets the next generation of students at the door with the contradictions and false premises of woke “inclusivity,” how will they learn to pursue goodness and truth? Continue Reading »
Small, religiously-affiliated liberal arts colleges do a far better job of preparing the minds and souls of students than the Ivies. Continue Reading »
Elizabeth Kantor joins the podcast to discuss The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature. Continue Reading »
After Harold Bloom died in October 2019, E. D. Hirsch told a story from the early 1960s, when they were assistant professors of English at Yale. They both had lived not far from campus, and Hirsch frequently spotted Bloom walking past his house and joined him for a stroll to the office. They had . . . . Continue Reading »
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