Dr. Bradley Nassif’s reasoned, orthodox views on marriage and human sexuality have cost him his career at North Park University, an institution formally connected to the theologically conservative Evangelical Covenant Church. Continue Reading »
A leader needs the ability to champion an institution’s goals in reasonable, moral terms that can win approbation from both subordinates and outsiders. Bad conduct, incompetent speech, neglect of institutional goods, pursuit of private or factional interests—all of that dishonors and dispirits the whole enterprise. 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 »
The Great Books will live on one way or another, but if recent trends are any indication, there will be no Core Bicentennial to celebrate. Continue Reading »
The monstrous regiment of administrators in modern universities could learn a thing or two from medieval models of university governance. 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 »