December 2, 2011
In today's Pope Center piece, Notre Dame philosophy professor James Sterba gives his counter-arguments to the case I made against enshrining "socio-economic diversity" as another goal for elite......
December 1, 2011
William Young examines the tradition of civic virtue in the Western tradition, and ponders the consequences of its decline.
December 1, 2011
Fred Reed has written a delicious little satire on America's mania for diversity and imagines the effects of the "Look Like America Bill" on college classes, symphony orchestras, and other insti......
November 30, 2011
Peter Wood contrasts discontented Occupiers with another discontented group.
November 30, 2011
That's the gist of this piece in yesterday's Washington Post, at any rate. The writer argues, as others have done recently, that if you're in higher education for the money, watch out. I......
November 30, 2011
This fall the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hosted several events related to its common reading assignment, Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer.
November 30, 2011
So argues English professor Mark Bauerlein in a new study published by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity. In today’s Pope Center Clarion Call, I comment on the study.......
November 29, 2011
In spite of budget cutbacks and fiscal crises the annual expenditures for diversity programming in academe continues to be on the rise. As John Rosenberg tallies the cost, can you find the benefit?
November 29, 2011
A community college dean argues that the value of a liberal arts education is not primarily monetary or vocational, and that's just fine.
November 29, 2011
So says financial expert Dave Ramsey to a woman whose stepdaughter wants her parents to finance her $250,000 private college education.
October 29, 2024
Today’s Middle Eastern Studies Centers are facing a crisis due to the winds of change in the Middle East and their own ideological echo chamber....
November 19, 2024
NAS welcomes the nomination of Congressmen Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency....
November 20, 2024
With McMahon, the new administration has a chance to drastically slim down and depoliticize the Education Department....
May 15, 2015
A look at the double standard that has arisen regarding racism, illustrated recently by the reaction to a black professor's biased comments on Twitter....
October 12, 2010
What does it mean to be Latino? Are only Latin American people Latino, or does the term apply to anyone whose language derived from Latin?...
May 26, 2010
A sampling of arguments for the idea that college may not be for everyone....
