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A More Inclusive Pluralism
Recently the California State University System and several other schools have denied campus privileges to student groups such as InterVarsity Christian Fellowship on the grounds that their requirement that...
Ivy Reveries
College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be by Andrew Delbanco Princeton, 240 pages, $24.95 Books warning of the imminent demise of college education are becoming almost as common...
Liberating Academic Freedom
It is often said that every book is autobiographical. That certainly is true of mine. About a decade ago I began working on a book that I eventually called...
God and Man at Yale (1880)
On May 27, 1880, Yale’s aging president, Noah Porter, spoke at Wellesley College on “The Christian College,” a subject then being much debated. The setting tells us much about...
The Soul of the American University
Our subject is one of those peculiar phenomena taken for granted in the contemporary world but which from an historical perspective seem anomalous. The phenomenon is that the huge...
