by jstewardfree | Sep 23, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Lee Siegel | Fewer and fewer undergraduates are majoring in the humanities, and critic Lee Siegel couldn’t be happier. As he tells WSJ’s Gary Rosen, great poetry and novels are meant to be experienced in private and alone, away from the competitive pressures of the...
by jstewardfree | Sep 18, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Samuel Klee We’ve all heard it—life is far easier now than “back in the day” when our grandparents were young. I admit, those words may contain some degree of truth; at school, research no longer requires laborious pilgrimages to musty library crypts, and I shall...
by jstewardfree | Sep 6, 2013 | Grey Matter
By College Fix Staff | A recording released Tuesday of a Michigan State University professor captures the educator bashing Republicans in a variety of ways on the first day of school, Campus Reform reports. On the recording, taken unbeknownst to the educator, creative...
by jstewardfree | Aug 30, 2013 | Course and Scholarship Updates
By Stratford Caldecott | Political correctness identifies a syndrome we all recognize, but is hard to define. It can be best described as a set of attitudes rather than an ideology, since viewed philosophically it is completely incoherent. It can perhaps be traced...
by jstewardfree | Aug 28, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Elise Grafe | ‘Free’ college in Oregon comes with 20-year price tag. College payment plan asks nothing of students up-front, collects dues later. Students walking across the campus of Oregon State University, in Corvallis, Ore. (Associated...
