Does All Knowledge Start Somewhere in Faith?
By Stanton L. Jones | It is bracing to have my institution—Wheaton College—held up in the pages of The Chronicle as the embodiment of “The Great Accreditation Farce,” the headline on Peter Conn’s essay. Conn suggests that Wheaton and other religious colleges are “intellectually compromised institutions” that…
No Real Greatness Without Goodness
By David Murray | One out of every five Americans has some disability. Seven percent of Americans have mental limitations or illnesses that interfere with their daily functioning. Only 16 percent of people with a severe disability such as deafness, legal blindness, intellectual disability, autism, or…
Pecksniffian Pundits Pan Koch Scholarship Money
By Jesse Saffron | When I first read University of Pennsylvania professor Marybeth Gasman’s June 12 Inside Higher Education op-ed titled “Give the Money Back,” I was baffled by the author’s strong, hyper-political opposition to the Koch brothers’ recent $25 million donation to the United Negro College Fund….
Why are a Majority of Young Adults Having Kids Outside Marriage?
By Rachel Sheffield | Among young adults, first comes baby, then (maybe) comes marriage. This increasingly is the new normal. According to a new study from Johns Hopkins University, 57 percent of mothers between 26 and 31 are unmarried when their child is born. But not all young adults are having kids…
New FTU Course: Is Christianity Good for the World?
If Christianity is put on the scale of history, does it tip in favor of helpful or harmful? Join Christopher Hitchens and Doug Wilson as they debate this controversial question. Sign in to the class here to learn more about this course experience, which is free for students and will qualify them to participate in America’s fastest-growing college scholarship fund….
Female Genital Mutilation in Sweden: 28 Girls Severely Cut
The Clarion Project | A Swedish school has found that immigrant girls have been subjected to severe forms of female genital mutilation (FGM). Since March, school health services in a small Swedish town have seen 60 girls who have been cut, including 30 girls from one class alone. Of those 30 girls, 28 had…
The Facebook Timeline and the Disintegration of Memory
By Marc | It’s probably the most boring piece of social commentary possible — “We have more information at our fingertips than ever before!” — but “available information” is a far cry from information really in-forming us, dwelling within us as a living presence, the memorized poem leaping into the mind,…
Feelings, Nothing More than Feelings: Confusion over Identity
By John Stonestreet | Can words and stories reshape a culture? Well, look no further than how our culture talks about being human. Ask a group of people today—especially high school and college students—what makes them them, and you’ll likely get as many responses as respondents. They may say, “I am what…
Is It Goodbye to English Departments Now?
By Mary Grabar | English departments have pretty much given up on their mission of preserving a literary canon or teaching poetic form and rhetorical strategies. Decades ago, politics of race, class, and gender overtook any concern for preserving and perpetuating poetic art. In fact, to claim that there is…