Reviewing Sertillanges Intellectual Life
From TCI: How does one acquire the treasure of knowledge? 1 What duties, habits, virtues, and practices ought to order the Christian intellectual’s soul in his pursuit of truth? What does daily life...
View ArticleWhere has the reader of conservative classics gone?
From TIC: I often reserve my Sunday afternoons for trips to the local university library. These visits are bittersweet, for although I live in an area of the country which is considered to be “very...
View ArticleDeath of a Diploma Mill
From the Daily Beast: A phoenix is a bird that rises from the ashes, but the University of Phoenix is a diploma mill that may soon go down in flames. On Wednesday, University of Phoenix’s parent...
View ArticleThe Coddling of the American Mind
From the Atlantic: Something strange is happening at America’s colleges and universities. A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and...
View ArticleInjustice and Adjuncts
From the Public Discourse: Today, adjunct instructors make up half or more of all faculty. There is, of course, a legitimate role for such faculty. The category was created to cover those outside the...
View ArticleHoodwinked Academics and the Publishing of Books
From the Guardian: A few months ago, an editor from an academic publisher got in touch to ask if I was interested in writing a book for them. I’ve ignored these requests in the past. I know of too many...
View ArticleOur Reading Life
Fred Sanders: The first book you ever read was a book you didn’t read, but one that was read to you. And whatever “first” might mean, it’s safe to guess it wasn’t read to you once, but repeatedly, over...
View ArticleExcellent Sheep
From the Atlantic: You’ve observed that Ivy League students have an internal struggle with both “grandiosity and depression.” Can you explain this further? Alice Miller wrote about this 30 plus years...
View ArticleThe Victimhood Culture
From the Atlantic: Last fall at Oberlin College, a talk held as part of Latino Heritage Month was scheduled on the same evening that intramural soccer games were held. As a result, soccer players...
View ArticleHere Comes University Inc.
Fredrik De Boer: Here at Purdue University, where I recently completed my Ph.D. in English, we have a little garden on the far west side of our enormous campus, where students and their families and...
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