Education
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Ivory Tower Is Falling
The big news story of early August was Jason Arday. Appointed to a professorship at Cambridge University…
Harold Bloom Sold Western Civilization Short
I was introduced to the culture wars of the 1980s and ’90s after they were already over. As…
The Allure of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition
During the fall semester of 2013, I began to teach a new course here at Yale: The…
The Making of Roger Scruton
Cambridge, October 1964. A new undergraduate named Mary Hoffman is sitting in the corner at a party,…
The Left Is Right About the Bible
“Texas Public School Students Will Be Required to Read the Bible,” warned a headline in the New…
How Not to Defend Reading
Has Elon Musk read the Odyssey? Despite the trillionaire’s endless carping about Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of…
The Stench of Corruption
The Trump family’s exploitation of every opportunity to enrich themselves demoralizes me, as I’m sure it does…
Everything Is America
The editors discuss Trump’s renaming craze and its implications for international politics, the decay of academia in…
A Great Teacher and a Welcome Manifesto
Reluctant as I am to fiddle with the U.S. Constitution, I’m willing to consider an amendment banning…
How Politics Ruined the Classroom
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Neil Gross joins…
William Lane Craig and Evangelicalism’s Trinitarian Deficit
William Lane Craig has recently caused some consternation by saying he does not confess the faith of…
Ignorance and Conviction at Columbia
Darializa Avila Chevalier—upper Manhattan’s new congressional candidate, backed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and endorsed…
The Last Grand Master from a Grander Age
The death of Sir Anthony Kenny on August 3, at the age of ninety-five, broke one of…
Mathematics After AI
Last year, mathematicians from more than a dozen universities met in the city of Leiden to discuss…
Jason Arday and the Merciless Lie
The fall of Cambridge wunderkind Jason Arday was the British press story of the summer. To any…
