by Publius | Aug 25, 2021 | Course and Scholarship Updates
By Jeremy Adams | (Source) “Of all crimes that human creatures are capable of committing, the most horrid and unnatural is ingratitude.” – David Hume When I was a boy, my father’s favorite day of the school year was not the last day, but the day before his students...
by Publius | Jul 28, 2021 | Family, Grey Matter, History and Tradition
By Dwight Lindley | (Source) As recent studies have shown, and numerous anecdotal accounts confirm, the mainstream English department is in declining health, and unsure of how to help itself get better. Many previous commentators have laid bare the structural sins of...
by Publius | Jul 21, 2021 | Course and Scholarship Updates
By Joseph Woodard | (Source) With typical ashen-gray melancholy, the old dean of St. John’s College once warned about the Great Books seminar: “You have to let a thousand golden moments just pass by… a thousand brilliant insights slip away…” Back then, I thought he...
by Publius | Jun 9, 2021 | Critical Thinking, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Mark Mercer | (Source) To my students: University students should be free from threat of institutional censure to state any opinion they wish and to state their opinions using whatever language they wish. At our university, however, students do not enjoy this...
by Publius | Jun 2, 2021 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Mark Bauerlein | (Source) As many of our readers who are parents know, it’s college planning time, and high school seniors scanning the amenities of the campuses they’ve chosen may be surprised by a particular feature they hadn’t expected: dorms and events for...
